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meat hook en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
  2. (plural-normally, slang) One's hands or arms.
    • Keep your meat hooks off my radio. 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):

Forms

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meat hooks Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

biscuit hooks

Translations (7)

pt escápula (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · it gancio (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · fr gond (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · fr piton (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · la carnārium (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · ca escàrpia (two-sided hook for hanging meat) · es escarpia (two-sided hook for hanging meat)