meat hook
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4.8
- noun
- /miːt hʊk/
:
gancho de carne
- Let's take this cocolo and put him on the meat hook.
- hanging from a meat hook
She skinned the whole body, hung it up from the kitchen door on meat hooks like a curtain.
- She skinned the whole body, hung it up from the kitchen door on meat hooks like a curtain.
Examples
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Peter came from the stern with a second meat hook and did the same thing.
Fiction book (1999) -
Hung up on a meat hook for the blood to all run out.
Fiction book (1993) -
On the meat hook he will know.
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When you got them hanging on the meat hook... they tell you everything.
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Perhaps Gring and the others would have hung him on a meat hook.
Fiction book (1999) -
She skinned the whole body, hung it up from the kitchen door on meat hooks like a curtain.
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The light falls on a long, ominous row of wicked-looking meat hooks hanging from the ceiling.
Fiction book (1993) -
The headless corpse of the Horseman is still hanging from the meat hook between several slabs of beef.
Fiction book (1994) -
Grabbing a 24-inch steel meat hook, I reached through the door and placed the hook into one of the fish's eye sockets.
Fiction book (1999) -
The butcher carefully hung the carcass on the meat hook to start the preparation.
Synonyms
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1.0
A curved piece used to catch or hang things
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4.4
A large strong hook for hanging meat in a butcher shop
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'meat' (animal flesh) + 'hook' (a curved implement for hanging) — a hook used for hanging meat. This noun‑noun compound follows a common and transparent English pattern (and similar constructions exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun meat hook names the tool butchers use to hang animal carcasses. Picture heavy meat hanging from a sharp metal hook, and that image explains why it means 'a hook for hanging carcasses'.