köttberg

Swedish

Etymology

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

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	köttberg	köttbergs
	definite	köttberget	köttbergets
plural	indefinite	köttberg	köttbergs
	definite	köttbergen	köttbergens

Further reading

• köttberg in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker