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meat hook

n. a two-sided hook normally used in butcher to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.

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meat hook

n. a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung

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Meat hook

A meat hook is any hook normally used in butcheries to hang meat.

Meat hook (disambiguation)

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.