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meat
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of MEAT
1
animal and especially mammal tissue used as food <we need to go shopping; there's only enough meat in the freezer for one more dinner>
Synonyms flesh
2
substances intended to be eaten <offered his guests meat and drink>
Synonyms bread, chow, chuck [chiefly West], comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, foodstuffs, grub, meat, provender, provisions, table, tucker [chiefly Australian], viands, victuals, vittles
3
the central part or aspect of something under consideration <he dances all around it without ever addressing the meat of the issue>
Synonyms bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum
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