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meat
[ meet ]
noun
- the flesh of animals as used for food: in particular, mammals, especially livestock and game, and often including poultry and game birds. flesh ( def 1 ), muscle meat ( def ).
- the edible part of anything, as a fruit or nut:
Crack the walnuts and remove the meats.
- the essential point or part of an argument, literary work, etc.; gist; crux:
The meat of the play is the jealousy between the two brothers.
- solid food:
meat and drink.
- solid or substantial content; pith:
The article was full of meat, with few wasted words.
- a favorite occupation, activity, etc.:
Chess is his meat.
- Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. pork, especially bacon.
- Slang: Vulgar. penis.
- Archaic. the principal meal:
to say grace before meat.
meat
/ miːt /
noun
- the flesh of mammals used as food, as distinguished from that of birds and fish
- anything edible, esp flesh with the texture of meat
crab meat
- food, as opposed to drink
- the essence or gist
- an archaic word for meal 1
- meat and drinka source of pleasure
- have one's meat and one's manners informal.to lose nothing because one's offer is not accepted
Derived Forms
- ˈmeatless, adjective
Other Words From
- meat·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of meat1
Word History and Origins
Origin of meat1
Idioms and Phrases
- piece of meat, Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
- a person regarded merely as a sex object:
Years after winning a beauty pageant, she denounced the competition, saying she’d been crowned the judges’ favorite piece of meat.
- a person, as a prizefighter or laborer, regarded merely as a strong or useful physical specimen:
The trainer never apologized for referring to his boxers as pieces of meat—if you made it to the top, he’d start calling you “Kid.”
More idioms and phrases containing meat
- beat the meat
- one's man's meat is another man's poison
Example Sentences
"It's like the penny was dropping, the expectation is that you’re there for a job, and actually you’re just there as a potential piece of meat."
“Everybody was on alert because little balls of grease drifted out. People floated backwards, like in the Matrix film, to dodge the balls of meat juice.”
Except it wasn’t a terrifying beast — it was a person in a bear costume using a kitchen tool designed to shred meat, authorities said.
A bear costume with meat claws was discovered in the suspects’ home on Wednesday, according to the insurance department.
The two chefs have used N. intermedia to improve the texture of sausages made with a mixture of meat and grains or vegetables, and brought rock-hard bread "back to life" by fermenting it with the fungus and keeping it out of local landfills.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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