tripe

Example Sentences

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“Offal wasn’t rationed during the war, and my mother resorted to the sort of food she’d eaten as a child: tripe and onions, brains, tongue and braised rabbit,” he told the Independent in 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

When singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards wrote a gentle ballad, When Tears Go By, they dismissed it as a "piece of tripe".

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

He longs for colorful Día de los Muertos celebrations, and the greasy taste of tripe tacos.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024

This is a stew popular in Madrid which includes blood sausage and some very unfortunate looking and smelling tripe.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

He had an uncanny knowledge of wildlife and was not afraid of dogs or cats or beetles or moths, or of foods like scrod or tripe.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller