English

Noun

merguez ‎(uncountable)

1. A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef.

French

Etymology

From Arabic مرقاز (mirqāz "sausage").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.ɡɛz/

Noun

merguez f ‎(plural merguez)

1. Merguez
2. (slang) A car that has been modified—as by filing away its engine number, or including components from different cars—to make it harder to identify or to conceal damage from an accident.^[1]
3. (slang, by extension) A seemingly normal transaction that later turns out to be a scam.

References

1. ↑ Le Courrier de Mantes, editor (accessed 23 January 2008), “Petit lexique du jargon des flics”, in (Please provide the title of the work)