meathooks

meat hooks

 
noun Slang.
hands or fists.
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Also, meat-hooks.

Origin:
1835–45 for literal sense
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meathooks definition


  1. n.
    the hands. (See also hooks. These are hooks made of meat, i.e., flesh and bone.) : Get your meathooks off my car!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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