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means A dense, cured sausage of salted and fermented meat, traditionally pork, that's dried or smoked rather than cooked.

from From Italian salame (plural salami), itself rooted in the Latin sal, meaning salt — the whole point of the thing. Salt-curing meat is an ancient preservation trick, but the word and the sausage as we know it took shape in Italy, where regional towns each guarded their own recipe. The 'salami tactics' phrase — slicing away opposition bit by bit — borrows the image of the sausage itself, carved thin, one round at a time.