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meat sweats

meat sweats noun: excessive perspiration resulting from eating large quantities of meat.

Noun

meat sweats pl (plural only)

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, plural, plural-only, slang) Excessive perspiration resulting from eating large quantities of meat.
    • Some dieticians^([sic]) and health care providers may claim meat sweats has to do with something called the thermic effect of food, in which eating large amounts of protein causes your body temperature to increase, thus making your body sweat to cool you down. However, others will counter how even...2022 December 2, “Are Meat Sweats Real?”, in INTEGRIS Health, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2023

Questions about meat sweats

What does meat sweats mean?
Meat sweats means excessive perspiration resulting from eating large quantities of meat.
What part of speech is meat sweats?
Meat sweats is a noun.

Words near meat sweats in the dictionary

  1. meat shot
  2. meat shots
  3. meat space
  4. meat stick
  5. meat sticks
  6. meat sweats
  7. meat syringe
  8. meat syringes
  9. meat tea
  10. meat teas
  11. meat thermometer

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