meat | | |
1. n. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | |
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms. | |
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter. | |
2. n. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | |
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly. | |
3. n. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. | |
4. n. (now rare) A type of food, a dish. | |
5. n. (now archaic) A meal. | |
6. n. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. | |
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm. | |
7. n. (slang) A penis. | |
8. n. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. | |
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor. | |
9. n. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). | |
He hit it right on the meat of the bat. | |
10. n. A meathead. | |
Throw it in here, meat. | |
11. n. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it. | |