Two wheeler, four wheeler: Culinary euphemisms used by Gujaratis and members of other traditionally vegetarian communities when they succumb to the pleasures of the flesh and order up dishes made with the bipedal chicken or the quadrupedal goat.
Example: When we went to Bade Miyan yesterday, we couldn't decide whether (sic) to have between two wheeler or four wheeler, so we ordered both.
I recently ran across a very odd word (odd, that is, to those who don’t
work in the relevant industries); I quote the OED entry (revised 2016):
gobo noun² ...
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