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meathook

meathook is the alternative spelling of meat hook.

Meaning of meat hook

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

Forms of meathook

pluralmeathooks

Questions about meathook

What is meathook the alternative spelling of?
Meathook is the alternative spelling of meat hook.

Words near meathook in the dictionary

  1. meathead
  2. meatheaded
  3. meatheads
  4. meather
  5. meathers
  6. meathook
  7. meathooks
  8. Meathop
  9. meathouse
  10. meathouses
  11. MEATI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meathook (page history and authors); meat hook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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