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pope's nose (plural popes' noses)

  1. (idiomatic) The tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).
    • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The Rose and the Ring:
      He took heart and began to mend immediately; and gobbled up all the jelly, and picked the last bone of the chicken—drumsticks, merry-thought, sides’-bones, back, pope’s nose, and all.

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