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salami|səˈlɑːmɪ|
Also salame.
[ad. It. salame, pl. salami, repr. pop. L. *salāmen, f. salāre to salt.]
1. An Italian variety of sausage, highly salted and flavoured.
1852Pfeiffer Journ. Iceland 19 White bread and salami! 1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Salami. 1907Westm. Gaz. 19 Oct. 6/2 We must lunch on bread, cheese, and salame. 1937Time & Tide 11 Sept. 1209/1 Everyone carried a basket with their food for the day—red wine, long rolls of bread, salami, cherries. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Att. ii. iii. 363 Tea at Slough was a curious meal. There was salami and mortadella and caraway bread. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon x. 146 We had a mass of high protein food; nuts, cheese, salami [etc.].
2. attrib. and Comb., as salami sandwich, salami sausage; salami tactics, the piecemeal attack on or elimination of (esp. political) opposition (see quot. 1952).
1925N. Coward Fallen Angels in Three Plays 258 At the last moment he said he wanted a Salami sandwich. 1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) xlviii. 102/2 I'm not going back to the same old lifestyle with..me making salami sandwiches all the time.
1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon iii. 50 The driver handed out a bit of Salami sausage and a small flask of wine. [1947Time (Latin Amer. ed.) 9 June 25/1 In Budapest, the citizens considered that the Smallholders' Party had been wrecked. ‘Rakosi has eaten the last of the salami’, was the word.] 1952Times 19 May 7/3 Mr. Rákosi describes one stage in it as ‘salami tactics’, by which slices of the Small-holders' Party were cut away and its strength worn down, even while the Small-holders' leader was Prime Minister and Mr. Rákosi his deputy. 1964Spectator 29 May 731/2 Castro's skilful use of ‘salami tactics’ was helped by their prevailing reluctance to be considered ‘witch-hunters’. 1978Times 28 Apr. 17/7 If these salami tactics are continued it will not be long before they [sc. Kew Gardens] are closed on every public holiday.
Sense 2 in Dict. becomes 3. Add: 2. Ellipt. for salami technique in sense *3 below.
1979Amer. Banker 11 Apr. 10/2 Salami is a truly automated crime. It's taking small slices over a period of time. It's taking very small amounts of money from very large numbers of accounts, say in a bank savings system, and transferring them automatically into a favored account. 1984Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 10 June 49/1 Salami, one of the most common fraud techniques. 1985Today's Computers July 105/3 The tried and tested salami (decimal cents) type of fraud would flourish, but at a much higher level. 1989Independent 9 Mar. 1/4 Many of the people detected nothing of the ‘salami’..or ‘Logic Bomb’, the tools of hackers intent on crime.
[3.] salami technique, a way of carrying out a plan by means of a series of small or imperceptible steps; spec. (orig. U.S.) a type of computer fraud in which small amounts of money are transferred from numerous customer accounts into an account held under a false name.
1975Economist 5 Apr. 64/2 The German government used a ‘*salami technique’ of reflation throughout last year. It authorised a bit more public spending here, a slightly bigger subsidy there. The first reflationary slices were small and tentative. The next were more substantial. 1981P. Somerville-Large Living Dog ii. 27 Michael's way of embezzling involved what is known in America as the salami or thin-slice-at-a-time technique. It relied on stealing tiny sums of money from other people's accounts. 1984Financial Rev. (Austral.) 7 May 30/2 A favourite play of the computer criminal is the ‘salami’ technique which involves the alteration of instructions which can be used to change interest payments to accounts. 1989N.Y. Times 19 Aug. i. 22/5 The ‘salami technique’ of publishing, in which one good idea is sliced into smaller publishable parts.
▸ slang (orig. U.S.). The penis, esp. in to hide the salami (also salam'): to have sexual intercourse.
J. E. Lighter (Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 90/2) records earlier variants of this phrase dating back to 1918, including to hide the sausage (weenie, etc.).
1977‘W. Allen’ & M. Brickman Annie Hall in Four Films W. Allen (1982) We should turn out the lights and play hide the salam. 1983P. Fussell Class ii. 39 The middle class is the place..where net curtains flourish to conceal activities like hiding the salam'. 1991D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow xv. 267 I'd steer clear if I was you, dude. Slap the salami instead, pull the pud, it's disease-free. 1994Magnet May 41/3 Sporting another cartoon cover..featuring the hard-drinkin', salami-swingin', tough-guy kitty cat from the Skin Graft comic books, this is one nasty record. 1996Sky Mag. Oct. 218/1 Women have a different take on infidelity anyway. If my two-bit manchild wants to hide the salami with someone else, he has my blessing. 1999Gair Rhydd (Univ. of Wales Cardiff Students' Union) 15 Mar. (Grip Suppl.) 17/1 Randy rejected thongs and codpieces with disdain: ‘None of these'll fit my salami’. |