Topic: AGRICULTURE
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | mete 'food' |
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meat S2 W3
1 [uncountable and countable]DFTA the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food : 
I gave up eating meat a few months ago.raw meat a meat pie a selection of cold meats
I gave up eating meat a few months ago.raw meata meat piea selection of cold meats red meat (=a dark-coloured meat such as beef)
white meat (=meat that is pale in colour, for example chicken)
2 [uncountable] something interesting or important in a talk, book, film etc :
3 used to say that someone looks very thin
somebody doesn't have much meat on him/her
British English; need some (more) meat on your bones
American English informal4 used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else
one man's meat is another man's poison
5 if someone is easy meat, they are easy to defeat, deceive, or hurt
be easy meat
British English informal6 the most important or basic parts of a discussion, decision, piece of work etc : Let's get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?
the meat and potatoes
American English informalLet's get down to the meat and potatoes. How much are you going to pay me for this?7 to be something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do because they have done it many times before : The first five questions in the quiz were about football, which was meat and drink to Brian.
be meat and drink to somebody
British EnglishThe first five questions in the quiz were about football, which was meat and drink to Brian.