meat hook

See also: meathook

English

Meat hooks at a butcher.

Pronunciation

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Noun

meat hook (plural meat hooks)

1. A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
2. (slang, usually in the plural) One's hands or arms.

   Synonym: biscuit hooks

   • 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):

     Keep your meat hooks off my radio.

Translations

two-sided hook for hanging meat

• Catalan: escàrpia f
• French: piton (fr) m, gond (fr) m
• Italian: gancio (it) m
• Latin: carnārium n
• Portuguese: escápula (pt) f
• Spanish: escarpia f