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 was silent another moment, collecting himself, before he picked up the dropped knife and meat hook from the floor of the silk sleigh and hurled them away.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor