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spare ribs
1590s, from meaning "absence of fat" (see
spare
), or perhaps from Middle Low German
ribbesper
"spare ribs," from
sper
"spit," from Proto-Germanic
*speru
, from PIE
*sper-
"pole, spear," related to
spar
(n.1).
