meat

Noun

1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
   • A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
   • The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
   • In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein. - 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:

   Synonyms: flesh

   Antonyms: drink

   Hypernyms: food

2. A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
3. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
   • The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
   • It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same. -...
   • Regularly eating red and processed meats in particular is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of data from 31 study cohorts published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Diabetes &...
4. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
   • meat and drink
   • I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
   • And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […]...
5. A type of food, a dish.
6. A meal.
   • And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:
7. Meal; flour.
8. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
   • The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
   • She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam. - 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12:
9. A penis.
   • He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me. - 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538:
   • Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day. - 2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54:
   • Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said, - 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41:

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10. The best or most substantial part of something.
    • […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter. - 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling:
    • The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated. - 2007,...

    Synonyms: crux gist bowels sum brass tacks core essence drift guts gravamen heart heart and soul heartstring heartstrings inwardness kernel marrow meat moral of the story nitty-gritty nub nuts and bolts pith punctum saliens

11. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
    • He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
12. A meathead.
    • Throw it in here, meat.