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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
meaty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meaty
▪ The bacon has a good meaty texture and it isn't too salty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Joan of Arc" was her first meaty role as an actress.
▪ a meaty bean stew
▪ a meaty red wine
▪ big, meaty barbecued ribs
▪ ripe, meaty tomatoes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Earthy porcini mushrooms, tender and meaty, make the perfect accompaniment.
▪ He had always provided the tabloids with meaty headlines because of his numerous girlfriends.
▪ Incredibly, the whole meaty makeover was inspired by a course nodule that looked at public reactions to outrageous art.
▪ Live food is the best diet for them although fresh or frozen meaty foods of small particle size can be substituted.
▪ The forequarter contains the rib section for tender roasts and the chuck, which is meaty but yields less tender cuts.
▪ The pollack was equally good-crisp and crunchy on the outside, meaty and moist within.
▪ When stocking a pool with fish, take care to select healthy individuals with firm, meaty bodies and erect dorsal fins.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meaty

Meaty \Meat"y\, a. Abounding in meat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
meaty

"full of meat," 1787, from meat (n.) + -y (2). Figurative sense "full of substance" is from 1881. Related: Meatiness.

Wiktionary
meaty

a. 1 Of, relating to, or containing meat. 2 Resembling meat in flavour, etc. 3 Of a person or a body part, large and solid. 4 substantial.

WordNet
meaty
  1. adj. like or containing meat; "enough of vegetarianism; let's have a meaty meal" [ant: meatless]

  2. having substance and prompting thought; "a meaty discussion" [syn: substantive]

  3. [also: meatiest, meatier]

Usage examples of "meaty".

Looking like meaty giraffes, they had long legs, supple necks, and hides like those of elephants.

There was a whole family of fat, piglike anthracotheres, all of them drowned, stuck in the branches of a broken palm like meaty fruit.

The rib cage split open with a crack, exposing the meaty fruit within.

Dig, and the cold breeze off the ice cap brought her a sharp, meaty scent.

He slammed his meaty fist into her temple, knocking her down in the dirt.

Ehrhardt draws a large, meaty hand from a patch pocket of the camel hair coat.

Maureen started to say something, but Big Walt belched grotesquely at that moment, and put a meaty palm in her face, forcing her back across his lap.

The guard dog nosed the dead birds, but the Swift batted it away until another child ran up with a nice meaty bone for the animal.

With his highborn arrogance, meaty hands, and scarred lip, Welf looked remarkably like a fool to her, especially when he could barely bring himself to answer her just because she was common born.

It almost drowned out the meaty splash made when we deposited the gangplank into the Everett River.

Behind him, Grogan shot out a big meaty paw and grasped his upper arm to keep him in contact with the deck.

He looked remote and feral, with the narrow face and the sleek ferret head and the oversize arms, meaty as thighs, sticking out of the chopped-off sleeves.

She shivered and moaned softly, the colour draining from her face, as she pressed her body closer to him and he found the swollen mound of her sex between meaty muscular thighs.

Her thighs were thick and meaty, strong and pale, whilst between them was an expanse of coarse white cotton hiding away her sex.

Emily caught a fleeting glance of his thick meaty phallus as he manoeuvred himself into position.