meat

[ meet ]

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noun

the flesh of animals as used for food: in particular, mammals, especially livestock and game, and often including poultry and game birds.See also flesh (def. 1), muscle meat.

the edible part of anything, as a fruit or nut: Crack the walnuts and remove the meats.

the essential point or part of an argument, literary work, etc.; gist; crux: The meat of the play is the jealousy between the two brothers.

solid food: meat and drink.

solid or substantial content; pith: The article was full of meat, with few wasted words.

a favorite occupation, activity, etc.: Chess is his meat.

Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. pork, especially bacon.

Slang: Vulgar. penis.

Archaic. the principal meal: to say grace before meat.

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Idioms about meat

piece of meat, Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

a person regarded merely as a sex object: Years after winning a beauty pageant, she denounced the competition, saying she’d been crowned the judges’ favorite piece of meat.
a person, as a prizefighter or laborer, regarded merely as a strong or useful physical specimen: The trainer never apologized for referring to his boxers as pieces of meat—if you made it to the top, he’d start calling you “Kid.”

Origin of meat

First recorded before 900; Middle English mete, met, methe “food, nourishment, sustenance,” Old English mete, mett, “food,” cognate with Old High German maz, Old Norse matr, Gothic mats

OTHER WORDS FROM meat

meat·less, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH meat

meat , meet

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How to use meat in a sentence

The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
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My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
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The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
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I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
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There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
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She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
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British Dictionary definitions for meat

meat

/ (miːt) /

noun

the flesh of mammals used as food, as distinguished from that of birds and fish

anything edible, esp flesh with the texture of meatcrab meat

food, as opposed to drink

the essence or gist

an archaic word for meal 1

meat and drink a source of pleasure

have one's meat and one's manners Irish informal to lose nothing because one's offer is not accepted

Derived forms of meat

meatless, adjective

Word Origin for meat

Old English mete; related to Old High German maz food, Old Saxon meti, Gothic mats

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Other Idioms and Phrases with meat

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In addition to the idioms beginning with meat

meat and drink to one
meat and potatoes

also see:

beat the meat
one's man's meat is another man's poison

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