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meat hook

meat hook noun: a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.

meat hook: a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as...
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Noun

meat hook (plural meat hooks)

  1. A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
  2. (plural-normally, slang) One's hands or arms.
    • Keep your meat hooks off my radio.1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight)
    Synonyms:
    biscuit hooks

Synonyms of meat hook

Forms of meat hook

pluralmeat hooks

Questions about meat hook

What does meat hook mean?
Meat hook means a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
What part of speech is meat hook?
Meat hook is a noun.
What is the plural of meat hook?
The plural of meat hook is meat hooks.

Words near meat hook in the dictionary

  1. meat forks
  2. meat glue
  3. meat grinder
  4. meat grinders
  5. meat hand
  6. meat hook
  7. meat hooks
  8. meat house
  9. meat houses
  10. meat in the room
  11. meat injection

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