pink slime
/ˌpɪŋk ˈslaɪm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
Uncountable
noun
A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive.
Colloquial; Derogatory; Uncountable
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, slime. Slime which is pink.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Pink slime is a real and continuing problem in many paper mills. Once established it may be difficult to ... Holmes (15, 16) and Sanborn (24) stated that yeasts or yeast-like fungi were often the cause of pink slime."
- "Pink slime is allowed in any school in America by the USDA."
- "You’ve heard about the “pink slime,” right? It’s that meat filler made from slaughterhouse scraps that is treated with ammonia."
- "You told me you were all-beef, not filled with some pink slime ammonia goop! That is the last thing I want mixed up in my mulched-up cow corpse!"
- "I paid a website developer to create a fully automated, AI-generated ‘pink-slime’ news site, programmed to create false political stories."
- "Water flowed down the cliff, showering on their heads; the stone under their feet was slick with pink slime."
Etymology
Apparently first applied to food in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɪŋk ˈslaɪm/