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meat

(noun)
1. (originally) Food, especially any solid part of an edible animal or (rarer) plant.
2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  ''The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly
3. Any sort of flesh.
  The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
4. Volume or substance
  If the assembly is too flexible, we could add some more meat to the supports to stiffen it up.
5. The best part of something
  We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
6. The sweet spot
  He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
7. A meathead
  Throw it in here, meat.
8. A totem; metonymy for its owner(s)
  - 1949, Oceania, Vol. XX
    When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
  - 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
    Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
  - 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
    Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
  - 1992, P. Taylor Tell it Like it Is
    Our family […] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
  - 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
    That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.
9. erect phallus

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