meat hook
or meat-hook
or meat·hook
[ meet-hook ]
noun
Usually meat hooks .Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter.
Origin of meat hook
11835–45 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
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