Definitions

K ration

NOUN

small package of emergency goods

Synonyms

WEAK

emergency field ration military ration prison fare short commons short rations

Example Sentences

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Keys already had gained fame for developing the K ration, the portable food packet carried by paratroopers and other GIs in combat during World War II.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2014

The man lips onto a horn, or a woman, with about as much feeling as other men show for a K ration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among experts interviewed: Dr. Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys, physiologist and co-inventor of wartime K ration.

From Time Magazine Archive

All wept for joy when liberated, ravenously gobbled up the Army's K ration � the best food they had tasted in more than a year.

From Time Magazine Archive