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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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Last week in the big brick building which the late J. Ogden Armour built to make strong Armour meatmen stronger, the stockholders completed the revolution they began last autumn.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since beef controls first went on, meatmen have demanded they be lifted.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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With beef at 152% of parity, asked one newsman, how could the meatmen complain about the rollback ordered by Di Salle?

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