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meat-safe

meat-safe is the alternative form of meat safe.

Meaning of meat safe

Noun

meat safe (plural meat safes)

  1. A ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.
    • […] her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty, mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe) […]1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 227
  2. (obsolete, slang) The stomach.
    • “[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.”1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in Rodney Stone,, London: Smith, Elder, page 172

Forms of meat-safe

pluralmeat-safes

Phrases with meat-safe

Questions about meat-safe

What is meat-safe the alternative form of?
Meat-safe is the alternative form of meat safe.

Words near meat-safe in the dictionary

  1. meat-eating
  2. meat-fork
  3. meat-forks
  4. meat-pie
  5. meat-pies
  6. meat-safe
  7. meat-safe cot
  8. meat-safe cots
  9. meat-safes
  10. meat-space
  11. meat-wagon

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