meatnoun
uk/miːt/us/miːt/meat noun (FOOD)
A1 [ U ] the flesh of an animal when it is used for food:
I don't eat meat.
raw meat
red/white meat
[ C ] a type of meat:
a buffet of cold meats and cheeses
More examples
- The meat produced from a pig is called pork, bacon, or ham.
- The crisis has led to price rises in basic foodstuffs, such as meat, cheese, and sugar.
- Fry the meat quickly in hot oil to seal in the flavour/juices.
- In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
- I haven't had time to cook, so we're just having cold meat and salad.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Meat - general words
- breast
- carrion
- crackling
- fowl
- game
- gristle
- joint
- marrowbone
- meaty
- poultry
- Quorn
- red meat
- tikka
- white meat
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Kinds of meat
meat noun (INTEREST)
[ U ] important, valuable, or interesting ideas or information:
It was a nicely written article and quite amusing but there wasn't much meat to it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- conception
- construct
- dogma
- fancy
- inspiration
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- motif
- proposition
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- the domino theory
- thrust
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Idiom(s)
be meat and drink to sb
meat and potatoes
meat and two veg
one man's meat is another man's poison