Dead-meat meaning

A corpse or carcass.
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One that is doomed, as to obsolescence, ruin, or death.
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Someone in danger of death or severe punishment.

We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking.

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Sentence Examples

  • He was furious, but he knew he was dead meat.

  • Fitzgerald is dead meat.

  • Why was it that anything dead was dead meat to a man?

  • The column for all dead meat includes not only the items tabulated, but also [[Table Xv]].-Quantities of Dead Meat imported into the United Kingdom, 1891-1905-Thousands of Cwt.

  • An increase in live cattle accompanied a decrease in live sheep and pigs, but the imports of dead meat expanded fifteen-fold over the period.

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