MEAT

Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans are omnivorous, and have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times. The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, pigs and cattle, and eventually their use in meat production on an industrial scale.

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meat

Noun

  1. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also .
  2. A type of food, a dish.
  3. A meal.
  4. The flesh of an animal used as food.
    Is that meat halal to eat?
  5. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
    The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
  6. a penis.
  7. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
    ''The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly
  8. The best or most substantial part of something.
    We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
  9. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
    He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
  10. A meathead.
    Throw it in here, meat.
  11. A totem, or a clan or clansman which uses it.


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