meat

Noun

meat (uncountable and countable; plural meats)

1. (uncountable) Food that comes from the muscle or other part of an animal.
2. (countable) A type of meat.
3. Any sort of flesh, volume or substance.

   The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

   If the assembly is too flexible, we could add some more meat to the supports to stiffen it up.

4. (metaphorical) The best part of something

   We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.

5. (Australian Aboriginal) a totem
   • 1949, Oceania, Vol. XX

     When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: ‘What meat (clan) are you?’

   • 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

     Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know ‘what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side.’

   • 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity

     Some people maintained that she was ‘sung’ because her family had killed or eaten the ‘meat’ (totem) of another group.

   • 1992, P. Taylor Tell it Like it Is

     Our family ... usually married the red kangaroo ‘meat’.

   • 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

     That’s a beautiful goanna. ... He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

6. (baseball) The sweet spot

   He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

7. (baseball) A taunt deriding the skills of an opposing player, meathead

   Throw it in here meat.

Synonyms:

• flesh

4 letters in word "meat": A E M T.

Anagrams of meat:

• mate

• meta

• tame

• team

Words found within meat:

ae am at ate ea eat em et eta ma mae mat me met ta tae tam te tea

Word lists related to meat:

Words within meat, by length
Words starting with meat
Words containing meat
Words ending with meat
Words formed from meat by changing one letter
Words starting with meat by next letter
Words that start with the letter m
Words that end in the letter t
Words starting with me
Words ending in at
Words beginning with mea
Words that end with eat
4 letter words starting with m

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