Definition of chitlins in US English:
chitlins
plural nounˈCHitlinzˈtʃɪtlɪnz
informal Chitterlings.
Example sentencesExamples
- There's more pressure in this place than a pot when you're boiling some chitlins.
- Chitlins - pig intestines actually - were a staple of the slave diet, but with inventive recipes galore they are now something of a soul food delicacy.
- The small intestines were soaked in water for a day, parboiled, then fried in batter to make a popular dish called chitterlings, or "chitlins."
- If scientists started saying that chitlins prevented most cancers when eaten at least twice weekly, would you eat it?
- All that's left is a promise of corn bread and chitlins to top off the stereotype.
- In later years, this diet - which grew to include pigs' feet, chitlins (hog intestines), collard greens (a vegetable), and ham hocks - became known as "soul food."
- We have German bratwurst and beer, we have Scandinavian lefse (a potato-based soft, flat bread) and lutefisk, we have greens and chitlins.
Origin
A dialect form of chitterlings (a food stereotypically associated with black people and poor southerners).
Definition of chitlins in US English:
chitlins
plural nounˈCHitlinzˈtʃɪtlɪnz
US informal Chitterlings.
Example sentencesExamples
- We have German bratwurst and beer, we have Scandinavian lefse (a potato-based soft, flat bread) and lutefisk, we have greens and chitlins.
- If scientists started saying that chitlins prevented most cancers when eaten at least twice weekly, would you eat it?
- Chitlins - pig intestines actually - were a staple of the slave diet, but with inventive recipes galore they are now something of a soul food delicacy.
- In later years, this diet - which grew to include pigs' feet, chitlins (hog intestines), collard greens (a vegetable), and ham hocks - became known as "soul food."
- All that's left is a promise of corn bread and chitlins to top off the stereotype.
- The small intestines were soaked in water for a day, parboiled, then fried in batter to make a popular dish called chitterlings, or "chitlins."
- There's more pressure in this place than a pot when you're boiling some chitlins.
Origin
A dialect form of chitterlings (a food stereotypically associated with black people and poor people living in the southern states of the US).