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meat 
[meet] Pronunciation Key
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[meet] Pronunciation Key –noun
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| 1. | the flesh of animals as used for food. |
| 2. | the edible part of anything, as a fruit or nut: Crack the walnuts and remove the meats. |
| 3. | 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. |
| 4. | solid food: meat and drink. |
| 5. | solid or substantial content; pith: The article was full of meat, with few wasted words. |
| 6. | a favorite occupation, activity, etc.: Chess in his meat. |
| 7. | Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. pork, esp. bacon. |
| 8. | Slang: Vulgar. penis. |
| 9. | Archaic. the principal meal: to say grace before meat. |
| 10. | piece of meat, Slang.
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[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE mete food, c. OHG maz, ON matr, Goth mats]
] —Related forms
meatless, adjective
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| meat
(mēt) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English mete, from Old English, food.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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meat
O.E. mete "food, item of food" (contrasted with drink), from P.Gmc. *matiz (cf. O.Fris. mete, O.N. matr, Goth. mats "food," M.Du., Du. metworst, Ger. Mettwurst "type of sausage"), from PIE *mat-/*met- "measure" (see meter (2)). Narrower sense of "flesh used as food" is first attested c.1300.; figurative sense of "essential part" is from 1901. Dark meat, white meat supposedly popularized by Victorians as euphemisms for leg and breast. First record of meat loaf is from 1932. Meathead "stupid person" is from 1945; meat market "place where one looks for sex partners" is from 1896 (meat in various sexual senses of "penis, vagina, body regarded as a sex object, prostitute" are attested from 1595); meat wagon "ambulance" is from 1925, Amer.Eng. slang. Meaty "full of substance" is from 1881.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| meat | |
noun | |
| 1. | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| 2. | the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: kernel] |
| 3. | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel] |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
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In addition to the idioms beginning with meat, also see beat the meat; one's man's meat is another man's poison.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Meat\, n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. Mast fruit, Mush.]1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. --Gen. i. 29. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. --Gen. ix. 3. 2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. 3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit. Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond. Meat fly. (Zo["o]l.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh. Meat offering (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. To go to meat, to go to a meal. [Obs.] To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food.
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Meat\, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] --Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. --Chapman.
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