buffalo wing

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Usually buffalo wings. deep-fried chicken wings served in a spicy sauce and usually with celery and a blue cheese dressing.

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Origin of buffalo wing

1980–85; Americanism; after a restaurant in Buffalo, which popularized the dish

Words nearby buffalo wing

buffalo grass, Buffalo Grove, buffalo plaid, buffalo robe, buffalo soldier, buffalo wing, buffcoat, buffe, buffel grass, buffer, buffer state

How to use buffalo wing in a sentence

To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
U.S. Spies See Al Qaeda Fingerprints on Paris Massacre|Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He sometimes surmised that it was because he was too outspokenly identified with the diminished liberal wing of the party.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
Rush Limbaugh’s Fear of a Black James Bond|Dean Obeidallah|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In other words, this is a very small vast-right-wing-conspiracy.
How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline|Jay Michaelson|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
His idea was that there would be ample time later to order a concentration on either wing or on the centre.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
One or two of the buffalo-hunters exchanged words with us while Mac was building his cigarette and lighting it.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
At Buffalo, where this fountain was exhibited, it received honorable mention.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair