# meat

Pronunciation: say "MEET" US /mit/, UK /miːt/

## Noun

1. The flesh of an animal eaten as food, or a particular kind of it, such as beef or lamb; also plant-based food made to copy it.
   - Simple: The flesh of animals that people eat, like beef, pork or chicken, or plant foods made to taste like it.
   - _The butcher wrapped the meat in paper before handing it over._
   - _She stopped eating meat and switched to a vegetarian diet._
2. The best or weightiest part of something, where its real substance lies.
   - Simple: The best, richest, or most important part of something.
   - _The meat of her argument came only after a long introduction._
   - _Reviewers said the report lacked meat and offered few real solutions._
3. The amount of flesh and muscle a person carries, brought up when describing how skinny or sturdily built someone is. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The flesh and muscle on someone's body, used when talking about how thin or strong someone looks.
   - _After a summer of lifting weights, he had a lot more meat on his arms and chest._
   - _She runs marathons, and there isn't an ounce of extra meat on her._
4. The relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut, or similar food.
   - Simple: The thick, solid part of a fruit or nut that you can eat.
   - _She scraped the white meat from the inside of the coconut shell._
   - _The walnut's meat had dried out and turned bitter._
5. A man's penis, in coarse slang. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A man's penis.
   - _After a few drinks he started bragging to his friends about his meat._
   - _He joked that the cold water had done his meat no favors._
6. The sweet spot of a bat or club: the area that delivers the cleanest, most powerful contact with the ball.
   - Simple: The best spot on a bat or club, where hitting the ball works perfectly.
   - _She got the fastball right on the meat of the bat, and it rocketed deep into left field._
   - _Golfers aim to strike the ball with the meat of the club for maximum distance._
8. A stupid but brawny person; a meathead. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A big, strong person who is not very smart.

## Noun

7. Food in general, especially solid food, or a particular dish of food. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: An old word for food of any kind, or a dish of food.
9. A meal; an occasion of eating taken at a particular time. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: An old word for a meal, the food people eat at one sitting.
10. Meal or flour; grain that has been ground. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Ground grain, such as flour or meal.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A totem, or by extension the clan or clansman associated with it.

## Origin

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete ("food"), from Proto-Germanic *matiz ("food"), often traced to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to drip, ooze; grease, fat." It is related to words for food across the Germanic languages, such as German Mett and Swedish mat.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/meat (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).