köttberg

Swedish

Etymology

kött (“meat”) +‎ berg (“mountain”), used since the 1970s. The second sense was coined in December 2004 by Pär Nuder.[1]

Noun

köttberg n

  1. (Sweden's) national surplus of meat, produced with Cold War farm subsidies
  2. baby boomers, the generation born in the 1940s, filling all available job positions
    Synonym: Jätteproppen Orvar

Declension
Declension of köttberg 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative köttberg köttberget köttberg köttbergen
Genitive köttbergs köttbergets köttbergs köttbergens

References
  1. "40-talisterna är ett stort köttberg", Expressen, 2 December 2004.

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