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meathooks

meat hook
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [meet-hoo k]
    • /ˈmitˌhʊk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [meet-hoo k]
    • /ˈmitˌhʊk/

Definitions of meathooks word

  • noun meathooks Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert. 1
  • noun meathooks a hook on which an animal carcass is hung after slaughter. 1
  • noun meathooks plural of meathook. 0

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Origin of meathooks

First appearance:

before 1835
One of the 34% newest English words
1835-45 for literal sense

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Parts of speech for Meathooks

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

meathooks popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

meathooks usage trend in Literature

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