meat hook

or meat-hook or meat·hook

[ meet-hook ]

/ ˈmitˌhʊk /

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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.

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Origin of meat hook

1835–45 for literal sense

Words nearby meat hook

meat ax, meataxe, meatball, Meath, meathead, meat hook, meat house, meatloaf, meatman, meato-, meatoplasty

How to use meat hook in a sentence

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The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
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The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
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A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.
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You know the fable about the dog who dropped his meat in the water, trying to snap at its reflection?
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While this was being done, Ramona would dry the beef which would be their supply of meat for many months.
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