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K ration
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˈkeɪ ˌræʃ.ən/ us /ˈkeɪ ˌræʃ.ən/
a small package of food that can be used by soldiers when they are fighting:
The K ration was originally made up of items from a Minneapolis grocery store.
All we had to eat were K rations and some hot coffee.
When you are out of K rations for two weeks, you eat what's available or you die.
K rations were invented by Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota public health scientist.
He was best known as the creator of the K ration, the ready-to-eat meal US troops carried in World War II.
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