meat hook

or meat-hook or meat·hook

[ meet-hook ]

noun

1. Usually meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist:

   Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.

2. a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meat hook¹

1835–45 for literal sense

Example Sentences

From their belted sashes hung scimitars, throwing knives, and one particularly scary instrument that looked like meat hooks tied together in the shape of a tulip.

From Literature

But the dish I think about most is the espetada, the skewer of piri-piri chicken dangling from its own meat hook.

From Washington Post

And, with Tony Hendra, he parodied the Babar the Elephant children’s books in a tale of a monkey uprising that ends with Babar and his wife, Celeste, strung up on meat hooks.

From New York Times

Houck described slaughterhouse exposés that reveal methods like cutting babies out of still-living mares, slicing leg muscles to immobilize horses, and hanging horses from meat hooks before their necks are broken.

From Seattle Times

You half expect Glen to end up hanging from a meat hook with an apple in his mouth.

From New York Times