buffalo wing
AmericanEtymology
Origin of buffalo wing
1980–85; after a restaurant in Buffalo, which popularized the dish
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You can see, if you open your mind's eye, a lone Navajo saluting the Super Chief as it pulls into Albuquerque; buffalo racing alongside the Empire Builder in Montana.
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