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English
Noun
cold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A coffin.
1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings, page 45:"Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?"
"No; but I could not lead such a life. I have already a bad cough."
"Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box."
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary