- meat
- 1. a person viewed sexuallyMale or female, heterosexually:Away, you mouldy rogue, away. I am meat for your master. (Shakespeare, 2 Henry N)or homosexually:Together, he and Jimmy had shared some of the choicest meat inside the prison. (McBain, 1981)A bit of meat is a man's sexual partner:I don't want you coming round here after my little bit of meat. (F. Richards, 1933)A young prostitute is fresh meat and an old one, stale meat:... since to the accustomed rake the most prized flesh is the newest, some now counted her stale meat. (Fowles, 1985)2. (and two veg)the male penis or genitaliaA lot of [young women] look like they need... a hot meat injection. (Styron, 1976)Meat and two veg may be used without any sexual overtones:... carrying a carving knife with which she planned, she shrieked, 'to cut off his meat and two veg'. (Monkhouse, 1993)3. a human corpseAlthough not for consumption:— told him to forget Stalin, that Stalin was history, Stalin was meat. (R. Harris, 1998)A meat wagon is an ambulance, a hearse, or a police van:The have the meat wagon following him around to follow up on the business he finds. (Chandler, 1943, writing about Marlowe, his corpse-prone private eye)... pictured in the local paper getting out of a meat wagon with a blanket over his head. (P. McCarthy, 2000 — the fate of a priest who sexually assaulted boys)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.