Definition of MEAT

meat

Plural: meats

Noun

  • Animal flesh used as food.
  • the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
  • the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
  • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
  • A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  • Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
  • A type of food, a dish.
  • A meal.
  • Meal; flour.
  • Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  • A penis.
  • The best or most substantial part of something.
  • The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  • A meathead.
  • A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

Examples

  • A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
  • He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
  • The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
  • The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
  • The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
  • The word ’MEAT’ appeared, tempting him to find an ’E’ for ’MEATEATER’ on Words With Friends.
  • Throw it in here, meat.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Danish mad, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats).
A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively. Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.

Synonyms

center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum, D, Donkey Kong, John Thomas, Jonathan, Master John Goodfellow, Percy, Yiddish), anaconda, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, bowels, brass tacks, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, colloquial, corey, crank, crux, cucumber, custard launcher, deets, details, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, doodle, dork, down, drift, fire hose, flesh, fuckpole, gherkin, gravamen, guts, hairy canary, hammer, heartstring, heartstrings, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, joint, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, moral of the story, nature's scythe, nob, nuts and bolts, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, punctum saliens, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, quintessence, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, soul, spirit, spitstick, stem, stretcher, stuff, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, tenor, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

Antonyms

drink

Scrabble Score: 6

meat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
meat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

meat: valid Words With Friends Word