meat hook

American  

[meet-hook] / ˈmitˌhʊk /

Or meat-hook or meathook

noun

1. Slang. Usually meat hooks a hand or fist.

   Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.

2. a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter.

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Etymology

Origin of meat hook

1835–45 for literal sense

Example Sentences

But the dish I think about most is the espetada, the skewer of piri-piri chicken dangling from its own meat hook.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022

It’s hard to control a desperate jump that may require Six to cling to a meat hook.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2017

Two leather trotters, crossed demurely against their meat hook, are undeniably adorable, and Ms. Papadopoulos’s window display of stuffed sausage links, chickens and kidneys brought a constant stream of giggling children into the gallery.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016

The large fellow waggled a meat hook of a forefinger at me and leaned in very close to my ear.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2014

He did as she commanded, his weight balancing the tilt of the craft as she slapped a patch onto the hissing hole the meat hook had made.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor