meat n.
1. a body, usu. a woman’s, as an object of sexual pleasure.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Magnyfycence line 2265: And from thens to the halfe strete, To get us there some freshe mete. Why, is there any store of rawe motton? Ye, in faythe. | |
| A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 87: And had ye no meat, John John? | |
| Comedye Concernyng Three Lawes (1550) Ciii: What wylte thou fall to mutton? [...] Rank loue is full of heate where hungrye dogges lacke meate, They wyll durty puddynges eate For want of befe and conye. | |
| Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 15: Why how now Scull quoth hee? will no worse meat go downe with you then my wife? | |
| Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) III iii: We haue meates of all sorts of dressing; we haue stew’d meat for your Frenchman, pretty light picking meat for your Italian, and that which is rotten roasted, for Don Spaniardo. | |
 | Neaste of Waspes D4: Or’e stoues Dutch-women sitts ... to roste meate for theire men. | |
| Bloody Brother II iii: Make room there, Roome for the Dukes meate. | |
| Parson’s Wedding (1664) V ii: What say you, is’t a Match? Your bed is big enough for two, and my meat will not cost you much. | |
| et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 55: Her thighs and belly, soft and faire, To me were only shewn, To have seen such meat, and not to have eat, Would have angred any stone. | |
| Marriage Night in Dodsley Old Plays XV II i: But is she man’s meat? I have a tender appetite, and can scarcely digest One in her teens. | |
| Whores Dialogue 9: She is the Cook and the Meat dressing her self all day, to be tasted with the better appetite at night. | |
| Psyche Debauch’d III i: The delicat’st bit of Man’s meat that e’er lips weer laid to, or legs laid over. | |
| Sir Hercules Buffoon III iii: I am so plagued with Citizens, that I cannot have a Deer that’s mans meat, but they steal it out of my Park, my Lord. | |
| Libertine’s Choice 8: What tho’ I chiefly love one sort of Meat, ’Tis Punishment to’ve nothing else to eat. | |
| Homer in a nut-shell 65: Dost think I’m for a Coward meat? | |
| Immodest Wearing of Hoop-Petticoats I 39: She that is growing up fit for Man’s Meat, may, by some Spark measuring the Dimensions of her Hoop, be rotten before she’s ripe. | |
| Minor in Works (1799) I 257: She has brought a pretty piece of man’s meat already: as sweet as a nosegay, and as ripe as a cherry. | |
| Memoirs of [...] Jane D****s 75: Jenny [...] politely said to the colonel, well sir if you had not young meat, at least it was wholesome. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 301: He finds her flesh so very sweet, / He swears he’ll touch no other meat. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: But when dat we come to de Row, / Oh, dere was no meat in de market; / De boy he had travelled afore. | |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 47: He finds her flesh so very sweet, / He swears he’ll touch no other meat. | |
| Pierce Egan’s Life in London 13 Mar. 53/1: [of prize-fighters] Both of the men, on peeling, seemed prime meat. | |
| ‘Lamentation Of The Bawds Of London’ Cuckold’s Nest 18: ’Tis those houses where gentlemen scatter their water, / They’re now built quite snug with bricks and mortar [...] And so, if a swell meets a mot in the street, sirs, / Together so slily they in them can creep, sirs, / And instead of a bed have meat on the cheap, sirs. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wkly Rake (NY) 30 July n.p.: wants to knowWhether Johnny N. is not tired of eating ham, as he appeared to be seeking meat the other night. | |
| Sam Sly 12 May 3/2: We advise that little pup, Be—nj—in W—st, to keep his little fingers off other person’s meat, or he will be getting choicely nailed. | |
| Man of Pleasure’s Illus. Pocket-book n.p.: [T]there is scarcely a week passes without a fresh supply of meat, and generally in good order . | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 8 Apr. 2/2: [of men] Out west when a good-looking fellow commits a murder all the girls rush up and kiss him in court. Why? Because they like their meat ‘gamey’. | |
| Venus in India I 91: I keep a pretty little piece of brown meat, and have my regular greens twice a week. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 30 Aug. 5/3: ‘Support whom you like,’ said the Old ’Un, ‘but I mean to have my meat.’ ‘ Later on I will try and get you some on the sly,"’said Miss Allspice. "Wait until all have retired, and you shall have your meat if I die for it’. | |
| Vandover and the Brute (1914) 80: He looked after the girl a moment and muttered scornfully: ‘Cheap meat!’. | |
| ‘Deceitful Brownskin Blues’ 🎵 Lord, it’s heavy-hipped mama and the meat shakes on the bone. | |
| ‘Meat Balls’ 🎵 Tryin’ to find a butcher that grind my meat / Yes I’m lookin’ for a butcher / He must be long and tall / If he want to grind my meat / Cause I’m wild about my meat balls. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 402: She heard the song near Ponca City, Oklahoma, before 1918 [...] ‘I went down to Jenny’s place, At ten o’clock or later, / She give me some hog-eye meat, / An’ I give her a ’tater.’. | |
| in North Carolina Folklore III 366–7: Fry a little meat, and make a little gravy, / Hug my wife and kiss my baby. | |
| (con. 1930s) Lawd Today 76: Lawd, that guy sure loves his meat. | |
| Numbers (1968) 28: (in male homosexual context) My ‘sisters’ and their ‘aunties’ are furnishing lots and lots of liquor, and I’m rounding up [...] the meat! | |
| Tenants (1972) 32: ‘No need to, man, there’s meat all around.’ ‘The women I meet generally want to get married.’ ‘Stay away from that type,’ advised Willie. | |
![[Oth]](/static/img/flags/oth.png "(Other)") | House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Nigger [i.e Zimbabwean] girls are just meat,’ Harry said. ‘And I don’t like my meat raw’. | |
| Rushes (1981) 30: (in homosexual context) All he can see is the illumined flesh — ‘meat, prime meat,’ he loves to call it. | |
| Close Pursuit (1988) 67: No one has one [i.e. a body] unless he took it from someone else. You are bodies, all of you. Meat is what we all are. | |
| Kitty and Virgil (1999) 188: She is half his age. He claims he loves her [...] She’s juicier meat is the reason. | |
| Urban Grimshaw 284: Kara was becoming quite the radical feminist, refusing to be used as meat by the boys. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Mail & Guardian On Line (SA) 14 Aug. 🌐 Drag the meat back to your magazine’s snazzy tent, club it into sub,ission with pumping house music and have your way. |
2. (also lump of meat, piece of meat) the penis.
| ‘Oxford Libell’ Arundel Ms. II 285: The baker he did cram the cockes / with bread well baked for y’ nonce / and she her mealy mouth well stoppes / w’h pleasinge meate quite free from bones. | |
| Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry (1866) IV 259: That you should coutch your meat in dish, And others feel it is no fish. | |
| Rule a Wife I i: She has a greedy eye that must be fed With more than one mans meat. | |
| ‘The Sence of the House’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 104: I eat their Lordships meat by day, and giv’t their Wives by night. | |
| Reformation II i: May thou always gape for meat, and it be death for any man to feed you. | |
| Aesop III i: I’ll make you stay your Stomach with Meat of my chusing, you liquorish young Baggage you. | |
| Honest Fellow 133: If you cram her all night, she’ll cry out for more meat. | |
| ‘The Man Who Had Too Much Meat’ Cuckold’s Nest 22: He’d got such a tail that it frightened the nurse [...] If little you’ve got, you may bless your lot, / For too much meat’s no use at all. | |
| ‘Sally May’ Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 8: For her with glee I’d ever strive, / To fill both mouth’s with meat. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 12 48/3: [advert] Merry chaunter — Meat and Gravy, or the Frenchman and the Blowen. | |
| ‘The Wife’s Randy Dream’ Rakish Rhymer (1917) 19: His bit of meat was hanging out, I strok’d it o’er. | |
| [perf. Arthur Lloyd] ‘American Beef’ 🎵 And they're certain to go where they know they can get / The best and the cheapest of meat. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) VII 1308: A fresh bit of meat up her cunt, put in on the sly [...] is a treat few can refuse themselves. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 20 Nov. 5/5: Tot is a housekeeper / Always trim and neat. / She hugs and kisses Jimmy / Every time he brings the meat. | |
| [perf.] ‘Aunt Tilly’ 🎵 Oh Aunt Tilly, if you want some meat, / Walk into the shop old dear, we'll let you have a treat. | |
| ‘You’ve Got to Give me Some’ 🎵 Said miss Jones to old butcher Pete, ‘I want a piece of your good old meat,’ / To the milkman I heard Mary scream, said she wanted a lot of cream . | |
| ‘Take It Easy, Greasy’ 🎵 I’m going downtown to old butcher Pete’s, / Cause I want a piece of his good old meat. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 185: While we’re slipping a piece of meat to them every night. | |
| in Erotic Muse (1992) 391: There’ll be no more wine, women or cunt. / We’ll lay in our trenches and dream of fine wenches, / And beat off our meat with a grunt. | |
| ‘A Boy & his Dog’ Beast that Shouted Love (1976) 185: Solitary bitches like the one in the Market Basket [were] just as likely to cut off your meat with a razor blade. | |
| in Tearoom Trade 72: If the man has a very large piece of meat – I know from experience – I will not have somebody ram that thing down my throat. | |
| Street Players 121: It would seem like years before she got a chance to lay up with that sweet brown meat. | |
| Aussie Bull 40: If you’re a male and you’ve ever [...] caught some ‘meat’ in the zipper of your fly [...] your so-called mates will laugh. | |
| Commitments 44: No, listen, said Jimmy. – Meat is slang for your langer. There were cheers and screams. | |
| Homeboy 75: Pack that meat in, you cumsuckin bitch! | |
| Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] ‘The only meat you’ll get [...] is straight up the blurter’. | |
| ‘Duck and Cover’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 8 [TV script] And I could use three more inches of meat. | |
| Gayle. | |
| Mad mag. Sept. 36: If there is some technology that allows vegetative folks to enjoy an active sex life, keep me hooked up! Dom ‘The Meat’ Cappicola. | |
| ‘The Game Belongs To Me’ 🎵 Turnin whores to carnivores, they just can’t leave my meat alone. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. 1980s) Skagboys 69: She needs a taste of SDW meat before she develops the same cock-teasing habits. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘[W]e caught you staring at our meat while we took a piss’. | |
| Widespread Panic 4: Confidential labeled him ‘the Lavender Lilliputian’ and ‘Princess Tiny Meat’. |
3. the vagina; also attrib.
| Ram-Alley V i: Faith take a maide, and leaue the widdow, Maister Of all meates I loue not a gaping Oyster. | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 24 8–15 Nov. 107: The Streams of Concupiscence so in her floate, / That many a Water-man rows in her Meate. | |
| Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 68: The women were [...] like frogs, only their lower parts were man’s meat. | |
| Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: Attend, ye young virgins, to this moral tale, / Dispose of your meat ere it hangs till ’tis stale. | |
| Covent Garden Jester 73: Attend, ye young virgins, to this moral tale, / Dispose of your meat ere it hangs till ’tis stale. | |
| ‘Affairs in Greece’ in Boudoir II 54: To the pantry every day 'tis clear, / Voluptuous cookey used to repair, / Tho' a novel place for such a treat, / Twas there James used to spit cook's meat. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| ‘Banana in Your Fruit Basket’ 🎵 Now my baby’s got the meat, and I got the knife, / I’m gonna do her cuttin’, this bound to solve my life. | |
| Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 161: With us he got a change of meat – Gentile cunt, as he put it. He liked Gentile cunt. Smelled sweeter, he said. | |
| Sexus (1969) 23: We had persuaded them to try it, to get them to drape a leg over an armchair and expose a little salmon-colored meat. | |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 246: meat 1. [...] 2. Vagina. | |
| Chili 52: The ecstatic rubbing of our meat together [...] Meat on meat, meat against meat, meat into meat. | |
| Happy Like Murderers 157: ‘Meat shots’, ‘Hamburger shots’ in the jargon of the world of home-made pornography and contact magazines. |
4. (orig. US) one’s body or flesh.
| Kentuckian in N.Y. I 27: If I hadn’t had so many inches, he’d have been into my meat. | |
| Streaks of Squatter Life 59: The afarr raised jessy in Nettle Bottom, and Old Tom Jones’ yell [...] gives my meat a slight sprinklin’ of ager whenever I think on it. | |
| ‘Children of Adam’ Leaves of Grass (1982) 258: The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body. | |
| (con. 1841) Fights for the Championship 171: Caunt had not a superfluous ounce of ‘meat’. | |
| ‘All Night Long’ in Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 171: I’m seeking a fair señorita, / Not thin, and yet not too much meat. | |
| ‘The King in Yellow’ Spanish Blood (1946) 62: I been in the ring long enough to size up a guy’s meat. | |
| George Spelvin Chats 95: Show the camera a lot of leg-meat. | |
| Joyful Condemned 27: If you wanted a woman, you might as well have one with some meat on her. | |
| Saved Scene x: Yer wan’a get some meat on yer. | |
| Gonif 21: He was a homo and as I was younger and somewhat repulsively attractive, he wanted me as young meat. | |
| Stand (1990) 184: That’s no joke for a man who’s carrying around the extra meat you are. | |
| Workin’ It 157: Her whole face was open. All this meat was hanging down. As she walked out of the bar the girl just sliced her. |
5. prey, as in he’s my meat referring to a potential victim.
| Witch of Edmonton III i: There’s my Rival taken up for Hang-man’s meat. | |
| Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 123: I knoed he were my meat without an accident. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 468: I’ve broken ye in, an’ ye’re my meat now! | |
| Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 57: You are a brave little cuss, but you are my meat. | |
| Wolfville 19: The signs an’ signal-smokes shorely p’ints to this yere Cherokee as our meat. | |
| Road 83: He was my ‘meat.’ I ‘cottoned’ to him. | |
| Truth (Brisbane) 20 Nov. 9/4: A bold John Hop then came along and said [...] ‘now he’s my meat’. | |
| Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II xvi: We’ll have de bulls down here in a minute — an’ he’s our meat, not theirs. | |
| Bulldog Drummond 238: And you understand fellows, don’t you? — he’s my meat. | |
| Gangster Girl 147: I want McClosky fer me own meat. Get me? I don’ want nobody to croak dat hoodlum but Biff Glasson. | |
| What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 34: I’ve got a hunch Hollywood is my meat. | |
| Room at the Top (1959) 32: Don’t introduce him to Alice [...] She’s hunting for fresh meat. | |
| Doom Pussy 168: Anything that will stand still is his meat. | |
| Stand (1990) 156: They had crossed the state line [...] and so they had become meat for the FBI. | |
| It (1987) 42: Let’s go grease some queermeat! | |
| (con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 273: ‘Reed [...] Would you like to take this on?’ Reed smiled [...] ‘It’s my meat, Mr. Burke.’. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 74: You get a punk jacket in here and you are just meat. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 55: Then Bill got his eyes on me. He rolled them once or twice [...] ‘New meat, Fred? Who’s the new meat?’. |
6. a prostitute; thus fresh meat, a novice prostitute; raw meat, a woman in flagrante delicto; the price of meat, the cost of a prostitute.
| New Sprees of London 36: Almost every house in the street is a bawdyken, and a decent bit of prize meat may be got at, at a reasonable price. | |
| in Tarheel Talk (1956) 283: There is lots of good stuff floating up and down the streets every night ... it is the best sort of mulatto meat. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 264: Viande, f. A whore; ‘meat’. | |
| Rent Boy 25: They know anybody they get after that’s gonna be pretty fucked-out meat. |
7. (orig. US) a person (or thing) that fits the bill, meets one’s needs.
| Roughing It 357: Capt. Ned sprung to his feet and said: ‘Come along – you’re my meat now, my lad, anyway.’. | |
| Arizona Nights 117: ‘Whew!’ I whistles. ‘That’s a large order. But I’m your meat.’. | |
| ‘Two Battlers and a Bear’ in Lone Hand (Sydney) June 180/2: ‘He’s my meat,’ declared Shellman. | |
| Over the Top 119: I gleefully fell in with the scheme, and told Cassell I was his meat. | |
| (con. 1920s) Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 450: She was his meat. She weighed about a hundred and twenty-five pounds, nice figure. | |
| News of the World 11 June 6: If you’re feeling musicomedy-conscious ‘Meet the People’ is just your meat (Ugh!). | |
| Big Smoke 218: That’s a good story of yours, but it’s not my meat. | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 119: Movies were my meat. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | (con. 1920s) Legs 153: Sob stories are not my meat. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 291: What sort of meat turns you on? [...] . Guaranteed supply of exceptional flesh. |
8. (US) a corpse, a wounded person; also attrib.
| ‘Hygeia at the Solito’ in Heart of the West 111: A doctor that couldn’t tell he was graveyard meat ought to be skinned with a cinch buckle. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| (con. 1941) Gunner 153: ‘The meat-run’ he explained [...] ‘I’ve got a load of wounded from Alikambos.’. | |
| Fields of Fire (1980) 370: Now, let’s count some meat, all right? | |
| Christine 309: The boy was run over three times each way. He was meat. | |
| Indep. Mag. 3 July 23: One moment he was a sentient being. The next moment he was meat. | |
| Leather Maiden 42: Bullets tore this way and that, and when it was over there was meat all over the place. |
9. (orig. US) a person of another race as an object of sexual gratification, constructed with a colour; thus dark meat n. (2); white meat n. (1)
| [ | | in Stag Party 38: At an elegant tea in Washington were present Representative B., whose wife was a very pronounced brunette. The hostess, also a brunette, asked the usual question as to Mr. B.’s preference in chicken [...] ‘I prefer the dark meat always.’]. |
| implied in black meat |
10. (US) an inferior person, poss. physically robust but mindless or gullible, thus often used to describe sportsmen; also affectionate use.
| Long Season (1975) 93: Meat, you’re crazy as a crab! [Ibid.] 271: Meat A term of indiscriminate affection. | |
| et al. CUSS 156: Meat. A person without much social or academic ability. | |
| Ball Four 134: ‘What does that mean, Bob?’ ‘I don’t know, Meat. Just call Marvin tomorrow’ . |
11. (US) in pl., a set of car tyres.
| Central Sl. 36: meats Tires ‘Got to get me some new meats for my ride’. |
12. (US Und.) a thug, a bodyguard.
| Eddie’s World 52: He your meat? [...] He’s a big guy. I’m supposed to get nervous? That it? | |
| (con. 1963) November Road 227: The meat on the right glanced at his partner [...] Barone didn’t seem like such a bad brass boy, did he? |
In compounds
1. (Aus.) the guillotine.
| Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 2: Meat Axe - The guillotine. |
2. (US) the penis.
| in National Lampoon Mar. 64: Well, I’m going to lay some pipe! [...] Beat her with the meat ax! [HDAS]. |
1. the stomach.
| Life in the Far West (1849) 11: Dick was as full of arrows as a porkypine: one was sticking right through his cheek, one in his meat-bag. | |
| Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail 46: I bet I make you eat dogmeat [...] and you’ll say it’s good, and the best you ever hid in your ‘meatbag’. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. a heavily muscled man.
| Green River Rising 45: The white muscle yard where the cons, particularly the meatbags [...] pumped iron. | |
| Runner 25: You are a glorified meatbag. Nothing more, nothing less. |
(US black) the testicles.
| ‘Meat Balls’ 🎵 Yes I’m lookin’ for a butcher / He must be long and tall / If he want to grind my meat / ’Cause I’m wild about my meat balls. |
a portable wicker ‘coffin’ used to convey a corpse to the morgue.
| ‘Half-Size Homicide’ in Speed Detective Nov. 🌐 A detachment of morgue attendants had loaded him in a wicker meat basket. |
a masturbator, esp. one who masturbates excessively; thus a general term of abuse.
| Gay (S)language. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. | |
| Incessant Voice of War 56: Whatever happened to Meat Beater?” “Meat Beater? That crazy bastard. [...] Used to jerk off a dozen times a day. |
(US) a hearse.
| Amer. Thes. of Sl. 81: Hearse. . . meat cart, — crate or wagon. |
the female vaginal lips or labia majora.
| Llama Parlour 155: A woman lay spread-eagled across the page, displaying what the boys back home would so eloquently call her ‘meat curtains’. |
a brothel.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
an exhibitionist, one who exposes themselves indecently; thus meat-flashing, exhibitionism.
| Sl. and Its Analogues IV 297/2: Meat-flashing, subs. (common). Exposure of the person. Hence, meat-flasher =a public offender in this line. |
(US) the hand.
| Long Season 18: Grissom’s huge, fast-balling meathook. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] Verdad punched Jay’s knuckles with his brown tattooed meathook. | |
| Boy from County Hell 33: Ti’ Boy clubbed them all down with his meat hooks. |
the penis.
| (con. 1950s) ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 103: Back with the guys, who had probably been [...] pounding or pulling their collective pud, wang, schlong, dong, skin flute, meat horn, beef tube, pecker. |
1. (US) a lecher.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. (US black) one who indulges in oral sex [they eat v. (4) their partner].
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
1. (US) one’s body.
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 403: Try an’ git back here by Monday night, or I’ll try an’ git inter yer meat-house! |
2. (also meat shop) a brothel.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| ‘Beedle-Um-Bum’ 🎵 She’s got a meat shop on the block; / She’s always got the gimme. | |
| gloss. in Simes DAUS (1993). |
3. (US police) a morgue.
| More Guys and Dolls (1951) 24: He never will be as close to the meat house again and be alive. That’s the morgue. |
(orig. US) an act of penetration by the penis.
| Texas Crude 108: What’s this, dear heart, your famous meat injection? | |
| Trainspotting 9: That beats any meat injection ... that beats any fuckin cock in the world. | |
| Spin Nov. n.p.: Their defining pro-pleasure dissertation is ‘(I Wanna) Meat Injection,’ on which they avow that they’d swap Rudolph Valentino and Tom Cruise for a ‘meat injection’ from ‘someone sweet, who can keep an erection’. |
(US) the penis.
| Domino 119: Any [...] man would want to bury his meat lance in them for five minutes, while he held his breath [HDAS]. | |
| Behind Closed Doors 🌐 Rev. of Natural Instinct: Cummings and Grand flip-flop so Grand can toss some salad and then use his meat stick to poke at Cummings’ hot ass. | |
| ‘Devinn Lane’s Succulent Blossom’ Adult Novelty Reviews 🌐 Once fully erect, which never takes long watching Devinn, I stabbed my meat spear into what I was imagining as Devinn’s very own Succulent Blossom. | |
| August Moone 9:28 🌐 [P]roud of his meat stick that was more than nominal size for a lad his age . |
1. (US) a chilled container used at a morgue to store corpses.
| Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Lucky that you’re not in a meat locker in the basement’. |
2. (US prison) a solitary confinement cell or block.
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] [T]hey hauled the mess of [...] Kincaid’s body to the meat locker. He spent five years in solitary. |
(US) a magazine of homosexual pornography.
| Maledicta III:2 250: After Dark and some others are approaching the meat-mag status of gay pornography. |
(US black) a pimp.
| Man About Harlem 2 May [synd. col.] The G Men’s arrest of several Harlem meat men [...] will drive the rest [...] to Washington where everything is wide open. | |
| Man About Harlem 3 Oct. [synd. col.] A general hauling in of Harlem meat men is being planned [and] the police will confiscate their cars. |
see separate entry.
a prostitute.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a womanizer, a philanderer.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
(US) an undertaker.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
1. a gullible person.
| Neuromancer 147: Where’s the meat puppet? | |
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 391: I’m down wid dat, my little Hispanic meat puppet. | |
| White Panty Superette 🌐 unlike real-life meat puppets, Victoria’s the kind of girl whose picture you’re never ashamed to show the folks back home. | |
| in Guardian 5 Sept. 🌐 [Cummings] is as feared as you would expect of a man for whom the prime minister is merely a meat puppet. |
2. the penis.
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 meat puppet (noun) penis. (Not common) ‘Do you want to play with my meat puppet?’. |
3. (US) a corpse.
| California Bear 215: Visiting the meat puppet that was once animated by her husband’s brain activity would make as much sense as visiting a dustbin full of his hair. |
see separate entry.
a pimp.
| Lively Commerce 109: A pimp [...] is sometimes called a ‘meat salesman’. |
see meat house
(US) a flesh wound.
| Clockers 490: He wasn’t too worried about Horace. It looked like just a meat shot. |
the penis.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 22: The diminutive size of my meat-skewer baffled all the attempts of my fiery-arsed nurse, for her well-worn snatch-blatch could receive no gratification from anything smaller than a village pump-handle. |
see meat lance
(US) the penis.
| Tenants (1972) 81: Like with your meat tool? You got no girl, who do you fuck other than your hand? |
(Aus.) the mouth.
| Truth (Sydney) Feb. 3/1: He represented Westmoreland for 20 years without once opening his meattrap on behalf of his constituents. |
1. (US) an ambulance.
| (ref. to 1918) Story of 168th Infantry 189: By this time all of the old members of the regiment [...] cheerfully referred to the ambulance as the ‘meat wagon’. | |
| ‘Und. “Lingo” Brought Up-to-Date’ L.A. Times 8 Nov. K3: MEAT-WAGON: Ambulance. | |
| (con. WW1) Great Adventure 269: [H]e rode triumphantly back on the seat of the meat wagon which had been hastily dispatched to pick up his mangled remains . | |
| Serenade to the Big Bird 42: I saw the meat-wagon start toward a ship taxi-ing in. | |
| (con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 91: ‘How’d he get it?’ [...] ‘How would I know? I don’t run the meat wagon.’. | |
| ‘Kid Killer’ Deadly Streets (1983) 121: Down the street the meat wagon came toward them [...] clanging sacriligiously. | |
| Iron Orchard (1967) 80: After the Odessa undertaker’s ‘meat wagon’ had carted the bodies away. | |
| Shaft 162: The meat-wagon crew was scraping the pieces of him off a wall someplace. | |
| Because the Night 212: ‘[A]n old bag lady got grazed by a ricochet. The meat wagon took her to Central Receiving’. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 192: Gotta go now, honey. The meat wagon must’ve arrived. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 397: Medics hauled gurneys. Medics hauled vics. Meat wagons hauled Code 3. | |
| Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] The last house on the left had two patrol cars and a meatwagon parked in the driveway. |
2. a vehicle used for conveying prisoners to and from court, police stations, prisons etc, a general police van.
| in et al. Tough Guys (1993) 549: You’re bait for the meat wagon. I talked, boys. Oh yes, I talked. | |
| Viper 72: They pushed me in a meat wagon - a Black Maria to you. | |
| Bang To Rights 9: You get in the second peter on the right [...] till the meat waggon arrives. | |
| Bunch of Ratbags 77: I’ll radio through to the morgue to see if the meat-wagon is on its way. | |
| Zimmer’s Essay (1974) 46: There were fourteen men inside the meat wagon. | |
| Big Huey 33: As we were about to get into the police ‘meat wagon’ which takes remand prisoners to court, the screws gave us a rub-down. | |
| Vinnie Got Blown Away 19: Loved a bit of bother the Filth, first there was thirty seconds, six more inside two minutes, stripes, trannies, meat-wagons. | |
| Sun. Times News Rev. 12 Mar. 1: When he left for the gentler regime at Stanford Hill [...] Razor Smith carried his bags to the meat wagon. | |
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 396: Waiting for us, no in a meatwagon, but in two squad cars. | |
| Decent Ride 328: Another meat wagon swings by brining mair polis. | |
| Young Team 47: A polis meat wagon screams up. | |
| Twitter 27 Aug. 🌐 Stormy mocks Donald, yet look at her handcuffed in the meat wagon . |
3. (US, also meat truck) a hearse.
| ‘Dissolve Shot’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective May 🌐 Phone the [...] homicide squad and tell [them] to bring a meat wagon. Also an ambulance for Mr. Michaelson. | |
| Lady in the Lake (1952) 106: Murder-a-day Marlowe they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up on the business he finds. | |
| Side Street [film script] There’s your customer, everything else is for the meat wagon. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 73: There was a city meat wagon on the street. | |
| Glitter Dome (1982) 176: The homicide team had taken charge [...] They all waited for the coroner’s meat wagon. | |
| Blood Posse 205: The dead were thown into meat wagons. | |
| ‘’95 Freestyle’ 🎵 Niggas, wise up / or that meat truck’ll be pickin all you guys up. | |
| ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 362: We moved by the meat wagon. I craned a look and caught the corpses within. | |
| Killing Pool 135: The meat wagon and the guys bring out their gear [...] I squat down for one last look before they cart him off to the slab. |
4. a large, expensive automobile.
| Nam (1982) 11: [He would] pick me up in his Oldsmobile convertible — a big, fat luxury car, a real meat wagon. |
(US) the penis, esp. as an object of fellatio.
| ‘The Iceman and the Cook’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 48: Maybe you blow da tune on da meat whistle, ha? | |
| On the Yard (2002) 82: What’re you going to do on the variety show [...] Perform on the meat whistle? | |
| Sneaky People (1980) 214: Soon’s you play a little tune on my meat whistle. | |
| Prison Sl. 61: Meat Whistle The penis. | |
| ‘Gunplay’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 73: Fired a minigun at a remote control glider while this hooker went to town on my meat whistle. | |
| Boy from County Hell 63: They waited until his lips were nearly wrapped around their buddy’s meat whistle. |
(Aus.) a brothel.
| in glossary in Simes DAUS (1993). |
(US) a young, prob. under-age girl.
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 22 July 3/3: he liked tender meat. / An Old Butcher Selects a Sixteen-Year-Old Lamb of the Flock and Elopes Wilh Her. | |
| Tally’s Corner 141: [f.n.] Richard [...] once ‘put down’ a woman of thirty or so, forgoing the pleasures of her automobile as well, because ‘She’s too old. I like tender meat’. |
In phrases
1. (also flog one’s meat) to masturbate; also fig. and in dismissive phr. go beat your meat!, adj. meat-beating, masturbating, -ory.
| ‘Wild Buckaroo’ in Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 107: One evenin’ in Bishop, I walked up the street, / And I was damn fed up with beatin’ my meat. | |
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 636: You get to thinkin about women you come all apart at the seams and be floggin your meat all a time. | |
| Candy (1970) 58: Are you here for masturbation? [...] You know — onanism — ‘beating your meat’. | |
| ‘Answer to the Letter’ in et al. Life (1976) 143: You talk like I lost something real sweet, / But I got more kick out of beating my meat. | |
| ‘“Rapping” in the Black Ghetto’Trans-action Feb. 33/2: ‘[O]l meat-beating Reese rather screw that cross-eyed, clapsy bitch’. | |
| Hot to Trot 32: Keep your hands off your meat, boys [...] ‘He who beats it depletes it.’. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 92: Hey homeboy, what chu doin’ dere – beatin’ yo’ meat? Nigger’s makin’ whip cream! | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 41: They talked about things like ‘beating your meat’, ‘bustin’ a nut,’ and ‘gettin’ some head’. | |
| Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] After half a page [...] Les felt it’d be more fun beating his meat. | |
| ‘ Burning Down the House’ Planet Sex Stories 🌐 As I stared down through the cracks of the roof I was rewarded with the sight of Eddie beating his meat. It was the first cock I’d ever seen, 8 or 9 inches long, and it immediately made my mouth water. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 149: I don’t understand the ’sexy newsreader’ schtick [...] I’m talking about conflict in the Middle East and you’re beating your meat? |
2. to brag, to boast.
| Naked and the Dead 422: I was president of our junior class in high school [...] I don’t mean that that’s anything to beat my meat about, but it taught me how to get along with people. |
1. the vagina.
| ‘The Blowen & The Swell’ Nobby Songster 42: So if you want a bit of meat that is both sweat and clean; / O come with me, for I can see, that you are very green. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. sexual intercourse.
| [perf. Dan Leno] ‘Dear Old Mike’ 🎵 I can do what I like with dear old Mike / All the week from Monday / Hees as happy as you please, on a crust of bread and cheese / But he likes a bit of meat on Sunday. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 729/2: C.18–20. |
3. a woman considered as nothing more than a sex object.
| Scully 85: The feller what poisoned his judy years ago and legged it to America with his bit of meat dressed up as a lad. |
1. a black woman’s genitals.
| Maledicta IX 52: black meat n [L] Pudendum of a black woman. |
2. a black woman.
| in Letter from My Father (1978) 170: He was getting used to fucking black meat preparatory to marrying Tinena. | |
| Und. Speaks 9/1: Black meat, a negress. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 24: black meat A negro female. | |
| S.R.O. (1998) 438: ‘She likes Black meat is all. She don’t care if it’s man or woman’. | |
| Lang. of Ethnic Conflict 46: Color Allusions, Other than ‘Black’ and ‘Negro’: black-meat, piece-of-dark meat, rare-peice[sic]-of-dark-meat, hot-piece-of-dark-meat. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 203: White men live for the day to get a piece a’ black meat. |
3. (US gay) a black male homosexual.
| Show Business Laid Bare 30: Almost always the gay sophisticates on the buying end were white men with money. They [...] preferred, as they said, white meat, but black meat was acceptable. |
(UK black) of a man, to ejaculate.
| ‘Love You’ 🎵 Let me offload and bust my meat quick. |
(US) a general phr. of encouragement, the implication being ‘don’t procrastinate’.
| cited in HDAS II. | |
| oral testimony in HDAS II. | |
| Thing-Fish [album] Don’t let your meat loaf. | |
| The Avenue, Clayton City (1996) 6: Good night, Guts. Don’t let your meat loaf, your gravy might curdle. | |
| [film title] Don’t Let Your Meat Loaf. | |
| ‘An Alaska Sailor’s Vocabulary’ 16 June 🌐 MEAT LOAF – it’s not just a meal anymore, it’s something to avoid. The saying, always said to a male person, is ‘Don’t let your meat loaf.’ Chris proudly tells the story of when a woman told him not to let his meat loaf and right off the top of his head he came up with the perfect response: ‘Don’t let your pussy willow.’. | |
| Thirty Below Band homepage 🌐 Stay Cool and don’t let your meat loaf. |
used to describe a man who is fond of sex, esp. with prostitutes.
| ‘The Old Woman’s Mutton’ Bang-Up Songster 31: A butcher who was fond of meat. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| (con. 1950s) Whoreson 142: I’ll give you some meat this morning when I go to bed. | |
| Workin’ It 216: I must have been looking better than a little bit, ’cause this bitch was like, ‘What’s up, baby? How you doing? My name is Michael.’ And from there, it was like I liked him that much, I wanted to give him some. |
(US) of a man, to urinate.
| MS n.p.: To Hang one’s Meat = to empty this, to wring out one’s swab ‘to relieve one’s self’ [HDAS]. |
to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 179: Manger de la chair crue = to copulate; ‘to have a bit of meat’. |
to display one’s body.
| DSUE (1984) 539/1: C.19–20. |
(US) exposed female flesh.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
(US) white people, usu. women, considered as sex objects.
| Pinktoes (1989) 73: ‘You likes dark meat or light meat, honey?’ [...] ‘I know what part Joe likes.’. |
see sense 2 above .
(orig. US) to kill.
| Pickwick Papers (1999) 246: You mustn’t handle your piece in that ’ee way [...] or I’m damned if you won’t make cold meat of some of us! | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 91: To make cold meat [of someone] is to kill a person. |
the penis and testicles.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Mad Cows 95: Penises, like snowflakes, are each of them different. And Maddy liked them all. [...] The round-heads. The hooded eyes. The meat and two veg packed lunch variety. | |
| Shagadelically Speaking 32: Austin realizes all is not well with his meat and two bits. | |
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 meat and two veg. n. male genitalia. | |
| Guardian Weekend 7 Feb. 12: Men in dresses with birds’-nest hair chopping off their meat and two veg in order to enjoy the privileges of using the women’s bog. | |
| Cape Times IOL 19 May 🌐 A painting showing his ‘meat and two veg’ swinging free as nature intended. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 195: He calls himself Lola, dresses up in a tutu and high heels but [...] still has his meat an’ two veg intact. | |
| Twitter 15 Feb. 🌐 He is now recovering in hospital from hypothermia and a fractured eye-socket. They are still waiting for his meat and two veg to descend. |
that which is considered out of reach of the speaker, and due only to their superiors.
| Soldier’s Fortune II i: She’s meat for thy master, old boy; I have my belly-full of her every night. | |
| Hist. of Col. Francis Charteris 18: Trusty Jack [...] found that she was Meat for his Master, and accordingly hired her for an House-maid. | |
| Polite Conversation 30: You have the wrong Sow by the Ear; I assure you that’s Meat for your Master. | |
| Tom Jones (1959) 348: He love my lady! I’d have you know, woman, she is meat for his master. | |
| Minor in Works (1799) I 242: De opera, pardonnez, by gar dat is meat for your master. | |
| in Bristol Magpie 23 Nov. 1882 10/2: Meanwhile, a scurvey little man, ogled and smirked [...] and fain would have dallyed with mine, but John observing, I was meat for his master, drew me off, at which my wouldbe gallant made his withdrawal. |
see sense 2 above .
to masturbate.
| Garden of Sand (1981) 403: He had a fast vision of himself stashed away on a funny farm [...] pounding his meat like a fiend. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
to have sexual intercourse.
| (con. c.1900) King Blood (1989) 20: Ray was pounding his mother’s meat. Ray was diddling his mother’s pussy. |
to masturbate.
| Last Toke 122: Don’t trust me no dude that pray while he pull on his meat. | |
| ‘Spoonin Rap’ 🎵 When you go in the shower he’s a-pulling his meat. |
to masturbate.
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 128: As soon as she was gone I started pumping my meat again. |
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 653: When a good-looking filly would come into heat, / Was the Strawberry Roan that throwed her the meat. | |
| Tenants (1972) 125: Sam wanted the brothers to beat up on you and crack your nuts for putting the meat to his bitch. | |
| Swamp Man 145: You put the meat to his sister. | |
| (con. c.1970) Short Timers (1985) 6: You maggots are huffing and puffing the way your momma did the first time your old man put the meat to her. |
(US) to have sexual intercourse.
| ‘Rangy Lil’ in (1979) 192: Where every man could find a seat / And watch that greaser sink his meat. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 667: Where every man could get a seat / And watch the half-breed sink his meat. | |
| ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 99: Hardly had they sunk the meat and settled down for another amorous session [etc.]. |
see under small adj.
see under swing v.
(US) to submit to anal intercourse.
| Deep Down In The Jungle 52: Least my brother ain’t no store; he takes meat in the back. |
(gay) to reveal one’s genitals to another man.
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see separate entry.
see separate entries.
(orig. US) a fool.
| (con. 1967) Lords of Discipline 416: You are disgraced, meatbrain. | |
| ‘Lion’s Tale’ 🌐 ‘Watch it, Ham,’ snarls Beef. ‘You’re getting my stuff wet!’ ‘So what, meatbrain?’ asks Hambone in mock challenge. | |
| Dragonling.com 🌐 He was known by several nicknames such as ‘Peebrain’, ‘Meatbrain’, ‘Dipstick’, ‘Fleabag’, ‘Booboo Dog’, ‘Old Man’, and ‘The Lurker’ but to me he was always ‘My Baby.’. |
(US Und.) a police officer who, not content with the payoffs, bribes and perks that are freely offered, actively compels people to offer him such monies.
| Knapp Commission Report Dec. 4: Corrupt policemen have been described as falling into two basic categories: ‘meat-eaters’ and ‘grass-eaters.’ [...] meat-eaters are those policemen who [...] aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain. | |
| Under Cover 102: I know they accused you of grass-eating [...] Everybody eats grass, I don’t see that as bad. As long as you aren’t a meat-eater, that’s fine. | |
| Lowspeak 97: Meat eater – a police officer who will actively seek bribes. | |
| They Wished They Were Honest 28: It was he who originated the classification of corrupt police officers as ‘meat eaters’ and ‘grass eaters’. | |
| The Force [ebook] Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. [...] The meat eaters are the predators, they go after what they want—the drug rips, the mob payoffs, the cash. They go out and hunt and bring it down. |
hash, stew.
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |
see separate entry.
1. a shotgun.
| Fast One (1936) 192: The navigator telling the boys what a swell lot of hash they’d make if he let go with that meat grinder. |
2. a car with a loud engine.
| Courtship of Andy Hardy [film script] I’m gonna change this old meat-grinder here into a tow-truck [HDAS]. | |
| , | | DAS. |
3. any tough situation or place in which an elimination process is being carried out, such as training.
| Long Good-Bye 243: In our town the mobs don’t kill a cop. [...] And a live cop who has been put through the meat grinder is a much better advertisement. | |
| letter 31 Mar. in Groucho Letters (1967) 221: I am so exhausted from the five and a half days in the meat grinder. | |
| (con. 1968) Citadel (1989) 137: Meanwhile, good ol’ Tremblin’ two-Five goes back the way it came and gets its ass caught in the meat-grinder again. | |
| Rogue Warrior (1993) 266: It’s gonna be a motherfucking meat-grinder, remember — you don’t have to like it. You just have to do it. |
4. someone who controls one and renders one’s life unpleasant.
| Rivethead (1992) 102: The toughmen were just convenient foils for the true meatgrinders of the world: the landlords, the foremen, the cops, the judges, the nagging spouse, the fools in charge. |
see separate entry.
1. a curl on the temple, then fashionable among London cockneys; thus in pl., curls in general.
| DSUE (1984) 730: —1887. |
2. (Aus./US) the arm.
| Digger Dialects 33: meat-hook — Arm. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: meat hook. The arm. | |
| Pimp 246: I noticed his big meat-hooks. |
3. (US) a hand; often in pl.
| ‘The Truculent Boy’ in Benno and Some of the Push 50: ‘Take yer meat-hooks outer me,’ snarled Nipper. | |
| ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 334: meat hooks — hands. | |
| ‘Sad Serbian’ in Penzler Pulp Fiction (2007) 172: Big Mamie reaches down and twists one of her meat hooks in the back of her purple dressing gown. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| ‘The Fastest Runner’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 16: Tony had very big strong hands. The other kids sometimes called them ‘meat hooks’. | |
| Dimboola (2000) 83: Put your meat-hooks up! | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 48: Her with those huge meathooks folded calmly in her lap. | |
| Breaks 195: His hands looked like meat hooks – big scarred jobs. | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 154: I saw Hooligan clamp his meat hook on that A-rab’s arm. | |
| Guardian Weekend 26 June 3: Their grubby little meathooks. | |
| Cutman [ebook] You’d better keep your meat hooks off me. |
4. (US) the penis .
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 23: Penis [...] meat hook. |
(Aus.) desperate for, intensely enthusiastic.
| Grifter 114: ‘They’re after the top-weight [horse], Fisherman. They’re Fisherman mad. Meat hungry for him. |
(US black) an ordinary person.
| Drylongso xvi: meat men – ordinary people. [Ibid.] 151: You see, a person is a meat person. But I have seen so many white women think that they are so much that they might just as well be nothing. [...] Men ain’t nothing but meat men too. |
in boxing, the mouth.
| Paved with Gold 189: The return blow came quick as a racer’s kick and ‘dabbed the paint’ about the giant’s ‘meat-mincer,’ making the lip rise like balm. |
see separate entry.
(US) the mouth.
| Orpheus C. Kerr I 17: The old man put a chaw into his meat-safe, and shut one eye . |
1. anyone who provides money or a livelihood for someone else, who thus needs to make less effort.
| Women’s Channel Message Board Asiaxpat 13 Aug. 🌐 are you saying only filipinas? waiting for the meat ticket? look arround you it’s everywhere! |
(Aus./US) the mouth.
| Scalp-Hunters II 10: ‘Shet up yur meat-traps,’ answered he. | |
| Nashville Globe (TN) 21 Dec. 3/2: An’ ef yo’ don’ lik’ whut i say, jes’ let yo’ meat-trap fly. | |
| Aussie (France) 4 Apr. 4/2: Fer heaven’s sake shut your meat trap or your teeth will get sunburnt! | |
| Aussie (France) XI Feb. 5: Babbling Brook (fed-up with complaints from grousing offsider): ‘For Gawd’s sake shut your meat-trap and go outside and demobilize yourself!’. | |
| Mirror (Perth) 6 Nov. 12/2: Shut your meat-trap, will you? |
(W.I.) stock, soup.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). |
In phrases
1. drunken love-making.
| DSUE (1984) 729: C.19–early 20. |
2. (W.I.) strong drink in general, but spec. liquor thickened with egg yolks.
| Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. |
see separate entries.
plain, unadorned, ‘no-frills’.
| Fixx 89: I favoured the straightforward meat-and-two-veg approach to physical relations. | |
| Indep. Rev. 16 July 14: There was more to life than meat-and-two-veg rock. |
gin.
| The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz , [...] or Diddle or Meat Drink-Washing-and-Lodging, or Kill-Cobler, or in plain English Geneva. |
(US, mainly Western) a rifle, a shotgun, a revolver.
| ‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Arizona Nights 7: There I grabbed old Meat-in-the-pot and made a climb for the tall country. | |
| Western Words (1968) 98: Meat in the pot. Slang name for a rifle, because this weapon is used by the hunter to secure meat for the camp [DA]. |