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meat hooks

n. large strong hand (as of a fighter); "wait till I get my hooks on him" [syn: hooks, maulers]

Usage examples of "meat hooks".

There was a lot of vaginal mutilation, although the girl's stomach was not marked with the two downward cuts from cold store meat hooks and Rosetti didn't think they'd find any ice residue in the blood.

An armory of knives, graters, skewers, roasting forks, and nut-and-bone crackers hung above the hearth on meat hooks, and a great black warming stone sat in the middle of the flames.

Two intelligence officers, not fifty yards from me, are lifting the German driver out of a blasted tank, using meat hooks.

Here were creatures, twenty-one of them, with sickles on their front and hind claws, and meat hooks twice the size of a man's head in the middle of their faces—.

The keeper, a fat and florid man named Gort, held a long rope, to the end of which had been lashed two meat hooks, donated for the occasion by the crew of the narrow boat.

Here, Dod, come take this and put it on the meat hooks over the big fire.

I got through the postern and left them with their meat hooks clamped on nothing but a peel of Amber's laughter.