( also infml ploughman’s ) n ( BrE )
a light meal often served in pubs and usually eaten in the middle of the day. It consists of cheese (or sometimes cold cooked meat), bread and butter, salad and pickles (= a mixture of fruit and vegetables preserved in vinegar). Its name was invented in the early 1970s to suggest the sort of food traditionally eaten by people working the fields:
I’ll have a Cheddar ploughman’s, please.