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democracy sausage

noun

Meaning

A sausage in a slice of bread bought from a fundraising barbecue at a polling place on election day.

Example

I'll grab a democracy sausage after I've voted.

Origin

From the fundraising sausage sizzles traditionally run at polling places, often schools, on Australian election days.

Variants

democracy snag

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