Wiktionary
n. a two-sided hook normally used in butcher to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
WordNet
n. a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung
Wikipedia
A meat hook is any hook normally used in butcheries to hang meat.
Meat hook may refer to:
- Meat hook, a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs and cattle
- Meathook, a minor character in Monkey Island
- "Meathook", a song by The Cure from their 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys
- "Meathook", a song by Tracy Bonham from her 2000 album Down Here
- Meathooks, a slang term for fists in the context of fist-fighting
- "Da Meat Hook," a Washington Nationals baseball player named Dmitri Young
- Meathook, a skill used by the Butcher in DotA, a popular Warcraft 3 mod
Usage examples of "meat hook".
Giller's naked body swung slightly as it hung, upside down, from the end of the rope, a meat hook driven through the bone of his ankle.
He had Coke-bottle glasses perched on a nose as sharp and curved as a meat hook.
Tombstone felt the desperation rising within his chest and wanted to scream, the torture as bad in a small way as the hour he'd spent that morning hanging from Hsiao's meat hook.
What was left of the armless torso had been impaled on the stump of a broken limb as if it were a meat hook.
If she did sleep, she figured she was going to look like something from a bad horror holovid: a dead body dangling on a meat hook.