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meat hook
or meat-hook or meat·hook
[ meet-hook ]
noun
- Usually meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist:
Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of meat hook1
1835–45 for literal sense
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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.
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