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meat hook

or meat-hook or ³¾±ð²¹³Ù·³ó´Ç´Ç°ì

[ meet-hook ]

noun

  1. Usually meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist:

    Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.

  2. a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of meat hook1

1835–45 for literal sense
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The words seemed to echo from a shadowy past, where justice was twisted into a theater of cruelty, where the gallows were strung with piano wire on meat hooks.

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From their belted sashes hung scimitars, throwing knives, and one particularly scary instrument that looked like meat hooks tied together in the shape of a tulip.

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But the dish I think about most is the espetada, the skewer of piri-piri chicken dangling from its own meat hook.

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And, with Tony Hendra, he parodied the Babar the Elephant children’s books in a tale of a monkey uprising that ends with Babar and his wife, Celeste, strung up on meat hooks.

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Houck described slaughterhouse exposés that reveal methods like cutting babies out of still-living mares, slicing leg muscles to immobilize horses, and hanging horses from meat hooks before their necks are broken.

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