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red meat

red meat noun: meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.

Noun

red meat (countable and uncountable, plural red meats)

  1. Meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.
  2. (idiomatic, uncountable) Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information.
    • To mention Bishop Manning's name in a city room is equivalent to telling the city editor that a rip-roaring good story is brewing. A bishop for almost ten years, he has provided the hungry presses of New York with more red meat than Al Capone, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, 'Legs' Diamond...1931, Robert G.M. Neville, "Prima Donnas in the Pulpit," Forum and Century, June (retrieved 10 Apr. 2021)
    • “Keep it up,” urged Truman. “You’re doing a great job for the country and, incidentally, providing me with red meat for campaign speeches.”1950, Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Round, “Trust-Buster Truman”, May 1, 1950 (syndicated, e.g., Prescott Evening Courier, May 1, 1950, p. 4)

red meat meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Indonesian and Thai

red meat in Tamil

செந்நிறமான இறைச்சி வகைகள், ஆடு, மாடு

red meat in Kannada

ಕೇಸಡಗು

red meat in Indonesian

meat
daging merah

red meat in Thai

meat
เนื้อแดง nʉ́ʉa-dɛɛng

Examples of red meat in a sentence

  • The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.1999 May 21, Alex Brummer, “Sir Peter throws the City meat to chew on”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
  • On environmental regulation, taxes and other topics that are red meat to economic conservatives, Mr.2002 July 10, Richard W. Stevenson, “Bush's Dance: Moral Outrage Without Pain to Loyalists”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
  • The passage, red meat for phone-ins and columnists ever since, argued less politely for an improvement in our national work ethic: […2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:
  • Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

Antonyms of red meat

Forms of red meat

pluralred meats

Words formed from red meat

Questions about red meat

What does red meat mean?
Red meat means meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.
What is red meat in Tamil?
Red meat in Tamil is செந்நிறமான இறைச்சி வகைகள், ஆடு, மாடு. See Red meat meaning in Tamil.
How do you use red meat in a sentence?
The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.
What part of speech is red meat?
Red meat is a noun.
What is the plural of red meat?
The plural of red meat is red meats.

Words near red meat in the dictionary

  1. red martyrdom
  2. red martyrdoms
  3. Red Mass
  4. red mead
  5. red measles
  6. red meat
  7. red meat allergy
  8. red meat radish
  9. red meat radishes
  10. red meats
  11. Red Mediterranean

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: red meat (page history and authors); red meat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); red meat (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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