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.

Origin of meat hook

1
1835–45 for literal sense

Words Nearby meat hook

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How to use meat hook in a sentence

  • Yon lass in the office sewed this bandage on my old meat hook.

    The Snow-Burner | Henry Oyen
  • “Why, you might catch these with a great meat hook,” cried Dick.

    Menhardoc | George Manville Fenn