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brisket

/ˈbɹɪskɪt/

brisket noun: the chest of an animal.

Noun

brisket (countable and uncountable, plural briskets)

  1. The chest of an animal.
  2. A cut of meat taken from the chest, especially from the section under the first five ribs.
    • Right after chili, smoked beef brisket could easily be the state food of Texas.2016, Samantha Skaggs, Real Food Slow Cooker Suppers, Page Street Publishing, →ISBN, page 146
  3. A smoked meat dish made from cow brisket, popular in Texas.

Proper noun capitalized: Brisket

Brisket

  1. (Internet, humorous) The character Bridget from the video game series Guilty Gear.

brisket meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

brisket in Tamil

கீழ்மார்பு

brisket in Indonesian

cut of meat
sandung lamur

Examples of brisket in a sentence

  • You don't say hamotzi on brisket! That's totally a bracha levatala!
  • Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket.
  • One got the idea to smoke a brisket as he was smoking sausage one weekend.

All 10 example sentences with brisket

Forms of brisket

pluralbriskets

Plural of brisket: briskets

Origin of brisket

From Middle English brusket, probably from Old Danish bryske (“cartilage, gristle”), from Old Norse brjósk, from Proto-Germanic *briuskiz (compare German Brausche (“knot on the head”)). Cognate with Danish brusk, Icelandic brjósk.

An alteration of Bridget. Originated after an anonymous post on Tumblr stating that a friend who does not play the game became obsessed with the character but kept on unknowingly calling her “Brisket” was widely shared.

Words formed from brisket

Words that rhyme with brisket

Questions about brisket

What does brisket mean?
Brisket means the chest of an animal.
What is brisket in Tamil?
Brisket in Tamil is கீழ்மார்பு. See Brisket meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brisket?
Brisket can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brisket?
Brisket is pronounced /ˈbɹɪskɪt/.
What is the plural of brisket?
The plural of brisket is briskets.

Words near brisket in the dictionary

  1. briskened
  2. briskening
  3. briskens
  4. brisker
  5. briskest
  6. brisket
  7. brisket disease
  8. briskets
  9. Briskey
  10. Briskeys
  11. Briski

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brisket (page history and authors); Brisket (page history and authors); brisket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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