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salami(dictionary)
Salami(recipes)
Grand Salami - General(gambling)
Griddled Pepper and Salami Sandwich(recipes)

salami (iou)



salami noun. M19.
[Italian, pl. of salame, repr. popular Latin word from verb meaning 'salt'.]
An orig. Italian variety of sausage, highly seasoned and often flavoured with garlic. M19.
In full salami technique. A way of carrying out a plan by means of a series of small or imperceptible steps; spec. computer fraud in which small amounts of money are transferred from numerous customer accounts into another account. L20.
Comb.: salami tactics a piecemeal attack on or elimination of (esp. political) opposition; salami technique: see sense 2 above.