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Cod War
noun- the political friction in the early to mid-1970s between Britain and Iceland, especially between the British and Icelandic fishing fleets and fishermen, over the fishing rights off Iceland UK, 1976
A journalists’ term that allowed the consequent pun: “Cod peace.” - A compensation scheme was introduced last year by the Labour government which acknowledged the problem 24 years after the cod war. — Guardian, 26 October 2001
- a female prisoner US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 53, 1949
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