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meat safes

meat safes is the plural 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

Questions about meat safes

What is meat safes the plural of?
Meat safes is the plural of meat safe.

Words near meat safes in the dictionary

  1. meat raffle
  2. meat raffles
  3. meat rod
  4. meat rods
  5. meat safe
  6. meat safes
  7. meat sauce
  8. meat sauces
  9. meat scepter
  10. meat scepters
  11. meat sceptre

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