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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mincemeat
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
▪ It made mincemeat of CoreTest, returning data transfer rates in excess of 1.5Mb/sec.
▪ She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.
▪ This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.
▪ A hostile Public Prosecutor would make mincemeat of her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A specially good recipe within my family is the combination of fresh pineapple cubes with fruit mincemeat.
▪ As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat.
▪ In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture.
▪ She also wants a mincemeat cookie recipe which she saw in a cookbook some 30 years ago.
▪ She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.
▪ Stir the brandy into the mincemeat and spoon on to cases.
▪ This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mincemeat

1660s, originally in the figurative sense of what someone plans to make of his enemy, an alteration of earlier minced meat (1570s); from mince (v.) + meat (n.). Mince-pie is attested from c.1600; as rhyming slang for "eye" it is attested from 1857.

Wiktionary
mincemeat

n. 1 A mixture of fruit, spices and sugar used as a filling for mince pies. 2 (context rare English) minced meat.

WordNet
mincemeat

n. spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat

Wikipedia
Mincemeat

Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat. Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place. Variants of mincemeat are found in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, northern Europe, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In other contexts mincemeat refers to minced or ground meat.

Usage examples of "mincemeat".

Aunt Emma was famous for her mincemeat pies, and certainly she would have one in the pie-judging contest this year as in previous years.

Aunt Emma said nothing, and Tom knew there was no need to tell his uncle about the mincemeat in the cellar.

In the back, sitting in the middle of the seat, Aunt Emma held her carefully wrapped mincemeat pie and never said a word.

Tom and George were in the back with Aunt Emma, who once more held her mincemeat pie, minus three pieces which the contest judges had eaten.

Aunt Emma joined them it took just one look at her constant smile to know that her mincemeat pie had won first prize this year.

Shirley Castle made mincemeat of the policeman with the jug-ears for not explaining why he was visiting Owen in the first place.

He made mincemeat of her efforts by putting his heavy arm around her shoulders and tucking her into his side.

Not only in combat, but in those shitty Russian Poliakarpov biplanes that were turned into mincemeat by Messerschmitt 109s.

Believe me, a twelve hundred pound horse can make mincemeat of plastic.

They had fed him mincemeat pastries and filled him up with ale and their songs, vying for his attention.

Flotsam had edged towards Moses, and were now each side of him, showing their teeth, and he, who could have made mincemeat of them both, was obviously restraining himself from doing just that.

In the Saaz area we have a skirmish with the Russians who appear suddenly out of the haze and hope, in the intoxication of victory, to make mincemeat of us.

One tyrannosaurus, his flung-out leg half mincemeat from the thigh down, continued to drag out and gobble the guts of the triceratops he had slaughtered.

If all went as planned, the sack full of lead pellets would turn the ruler-in-exile of conquered Andhra into so much mincemeat.

Both of us eyed the little special doughballs filled with meat, the dense rum cakes and dark mincemeats.