meat diaper

9.9

A pad under raw meat that soaks up liquid

noun

Slang

: pañal de carne

The meat diaper does a good job of keeping the packaging from leaking.

Examples

Before cooking the steak, she discarded the meat diaper from the bottom of the tray.
I always remove the meat diaper before cooking.
He laughed when he first heard someone call it a meat diaper at the supermarket.
Did you see the meat diaper in the package?
Before cooking the steak, she discarded the meat diaper from the bottom of the tray.
I always remove the meat diaper before cooking to ensure the meat isn't soggy.
The meat diaper helps absorb excess liquid in the meat package to keep it fresh.

How Absorbent

meat diaper

Slang

9.9

liner

35 3.4

tray

311 1.0

Surface Forms

meat diaper singular

meat diapers plural

Morphology

meat + diaper

The phrase combines 'meat' and 'diaper' in an obvious metaphorical way: a learner who knows 'diaper' as an absorbent garment can infer this is a humorous label for an absorbent pad used with packaged meat. The mapping from constituents to meaning is direct and predictable, so the expression is immediately comprehensible to learners who know both words.

Etymology

Meat diaper is a funny name people use because the small pad under a tray of raw meat acts like a diaper and soaks up the juices. That's why 'meat diaper' means the little pad under packaged raw meat that keeps the package from leaking.