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What is "luncheon meat"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luncheon meat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He lived off squares of luncheon meat and swills of tea.
▪ These included worms, bread, cheese and meat baits, of which sausage meat and luncheon meat were the most popular.
▪ They'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs, cans of luncheon meat, and tea.
▪ With relatives of the luncheon meat hanging from the racks overhead, the taste seemed different.
Wiktionary
luncheon meat

n. (context UK English) lunch meat

WordNet
luncheon meat

n. any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold [syn: lunch meat]

Usage examples of "luncheon meat".

They had been living on beans and tinned luncheon meat, which was edible if you made a couple of holes in the lid of the can and gently heated it over the stove.

Cans of luncheon meat that Mildred says should be all right if they're not blown.

They had a loaf of bread and a couple of packages of plastic-wrapped luncheon meat, and she was making sandwiches for them.

Most of this consisted of condensed milk and luncheon meat, virtually inedible unless supplemented by the delicacies stored away in Beatrice's deep freeze.

Monterey jack cheese, and cut-up slices of the remaining luncheon meat.

I switched my diet from steaks to luncheon meat and haunted branch libraries all over L.