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frankenmeat

frankenmeat noun: artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.

Noun

frankenmeat (countable and uncountable, plural frankenmeats)

  1. (derogatory) Artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.
    • The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.2013 August 6, John Michael McGrath, “The Frankenmeat of the Future”, in Hazlitt, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025
    • I think that’s already “frankenmeat,” which has been around since at least 2011, although I’m now entertaining myself by coming up with terrible alternatives: GrowMeat. ManuFlesh. Okay, yes, this is hard.2018 November 9, Edith Zimmerman, “What Should We Call Frankenmeat?”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020

Forms of frankenmeat

pluralfrankenmeats

Origin of frankenmeat

From franken- + meat.

Questions about frankenmeat

What does frankenmeat mean?
Frankenmeat means artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.
What part of speech is frankenmeat?
Frankenmeat is a noun.
What is the plural of frankenmeat?
The plural of frankenmeat is frankenmeats.

Words near frankenmeat in the dictionary

  1. frankenfruit
  2. frankenfruits
  3. frankeniaceous
  4. frankenlang
  5. frankenlangs
  6. frankenmeat
  7. frankenmeats
  8. frankenpie
  9. frankenpies
  10. frankenpledge
  11. frankenpledges

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