Meat Miːt Dog Animals Person Noun Piece/Slice Horse

• a piece/slice of meat
• horse meat (= from a horse)
• dog meat (= either for a dog or from a dog)
• meat-eating animals

meat

1. the soft part of an animal or a bird that can be eaten as food; a particular type of this
• SEE ALSO bushmeat
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bushmeat
• a piece/slice of meat
• horse meat (= from a horse)
• dog meat (= either for a dog or from a dog)
• meat-eating animals
• Their diet consists of lean meat and vegetables.
• Store raw meat on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
• cured meat (= treated with smoke, salt, etc to preserve it)
• Many processed meats have unhealthy levels of sodium.
• meat products
• Use the highest quality cuts of meat, fish or poultry.
• There's not much meat on this chop.
• There’s not much meat on her (= she is very thin).

Extra Examples

• Do you eat meat?
• I'm not a great meat eater.
• He buys fresh meat and fish daily.
• Fry the meat in a little olive oil.
• She always buys the cheaper cuts of meat.
• Simmer the meat for 30 minutes until tender.
• That meat smells rotten.
• The animals do not hunt and rarely consume meat.
• These pies have a low meat content.
• Turn the meat frequently to brown it.
• recipes for simple meat dishes
• a plate of cold meats
• His favourite food is meat and vegetable stew.
• They make fully cooked, ready-to-eat meat products.
2. the important or interesting part of something
• SYNONYM substance
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/substance
• This chapter contains the real meat of the writer's argument.
• Let's get right to the meat of the matter and address the problem.
3. in serious trouble
• If anyone finds out, you're dead meat.
4. a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
• Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
5. something that somebody enjoys very much
• This degree of chaos is meat and drink to Guy.
6. something that is a normal thing to deal with for somebody
• This kind of research task is meat and drink to these students.
7. used to say that different people like different things; what one person likes very much, another person does not like at all

Word Origin

• Old English mete ‘food’ or ‘article of food’ (as in sweetmeat), of Germanic origin.