meat packing

meat packing

noun
the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism

meat packer, noun
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Meat packing is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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meat packing

noun
wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) [syn: meatpacking
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