English Dictionary

meat

/miːt/

noun

(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. / (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

I love to eat meat.

意味（1）

(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.

A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.

意味（2）

(countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.

意味（3）

(now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.

I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

意味（4）

(now rare) A type of food, a dish.

意味（5）

(archaic) A meal.

And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Meal; flour.

意味（7）

(uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

意味（8）

(slang) 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.

意味（9）

(colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.

We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.

意味（10）

(sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

意味（11）

(slang) A meathead.

Throw it in here, meat.

意味（12）

(Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: What meat (clan) are you?