Definition of "perishables" [perishables]

• Plural form of perishable. (noun)

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• "My point re BOGOF for perishables is that no-one refuses something for nothing, perhaps ends up using a bit of it, and then throws the rest away."
• "The rest of the food, the "perishables," was for the other people, he knew that much, since he got very little of it himself."
• "And there’s the stuff you don’t get from the post office fellows: arms, chemical precursors to hallucinogenic substances, certain perishables."