meat hook

or meat-hook or meat·hook

[ meet-hook ]

noun

1. Usually meat hooks. Slang. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meat hook¹

1835–45 for literal sense

Example Sentences

Yon lass in the office sewed this bandage on my old meat hook.

From Project Gutenberg

“Why, you might catch these with a great meat hook,” cried Dick.

From Project Gutenberg