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

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

Synonyms
  • [2] Jätteproppen Orvar

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