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raw meat

raw meat

14 1.0
Uncooked meat that people eat
  • noun
  • /rɔː mɪt/
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  • It is important to keep raw meat refrigerated to prevent spoilage.
  • raw meat and poultry
  • raw meat or chicken
  • handling raw meat

You lay down a big chunk of bloody raw meat in front of them, They'll just look at it.

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Examples

  • Does turkey appeal to you, or do you confine yourself to raw meat?

  • Every one of them pounced on the raw meat and began to eat hungrily.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • You try eating raw meat twice a day.

  • You know, I can sleep cold, eat raw meat, even raw fish, but come evening, I sure miss my hot coffee.

  • We got 20 pounds of raw meat and no milk.

  • Something smells like raw meat.

  • Probably the most important thing is to be careful when cooking raw meat, especially lamb and pork.

    Blog text (34)
  • There are no national bacterial standards for raw meat products sold at the retail level.

    Academic text (1994)
  • General advice on food safety issues is based on basic hygiene practices when preparing foods, especially raw meat.

    Academic text (2012)
  • But, I've been eating raw meat for a long time and I haven't experienced any issues.

    Blog text (30)

How Cooked

overdone
1 2.9
well-done
12 1.6
medium
68 3.0
rare
54 3.3
raw meat
14 1.0

Surface Forms

raw meat singular
raw meats plural

Morphology

raw + meat

The meaning 'meat that has not been cooked' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'raw' (uncooked) with 'meat' (animal flesh). This adjective+noun composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the phrase's meaning.

Etymology

Raw meat comes from a simple, literal picture: raw means 'not cooked', so it is meat taken straight from the animal and not heated. That's why raw meat means 'meat that has not been cooked'.