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meatman

American  
[meet-man] / ˈmitˌmæn /

noun

  • meatmen
    plural
  1. a dealer in meat; butcher.


Gender

See -man.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of meatman

First recorded in 1560–70; meat + man


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Dismayed meatmen followed the turncoat from the witness chair, questioning his credentials.

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Up jumped a dozen meatmen to protest livestock controls and price rollbacks.

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The plight of the meatmen is just one example of the intricate economics of hunger that nearly all new advocates of fasting recognize.

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Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress.

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Farmers and meatmen protested that meat controls made black markets a certainty.

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