as in garbage
discarded or useless material
a pile of offal from the tannery operating in the neighborhood
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Lobster three ways using meat, shells and offal demonstrates a tradition of letting nothing go to waste.
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Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Menudo is the ultimate peasant dish, made with the once undesired offal meat of a butchered animal.
—Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
The processor explained that their business gives leftover legs and offal to multiple people, who use the parts for everything from fertilizer to chicken feed.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
These turn out to be the pickled skirt trimmed from a scallop — shellfish offal.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Menudo is the ultimate peasant dish, made with the once undesired offal meat of a butchered animal.
—Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
The processor explained that their business gives leftover legs and offal to multiple people, who use the parts for everything from fertilizer to chicken feed.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
These turn out to be the pickled skirt trimmed from a scallop — shellfish offal.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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“Offal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offal. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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