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twice-laid (uncountable)

  1. (slang, nautical, archaic) A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.
    • 1837, The Athenaeum, page 741:
      There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes []

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary