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

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