Definitions
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- noun A device for cutting meat into very small pieces.
- noun A physically dangerous or
wearing activity, as a military battle, or an occupational or athletic activity. - noun A process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The problem now is noone wants to get their people killed in a meatgrinder, which is what both iraq and afghanistan are turning out to be because we didn't do the job right the first time.
Edwards: Axelrod's Comments About Bhutto And Hillary "Ridiculous" 2009
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Once Chinese communist armies had entered that war in massive numbers in late 1950 and inflicted a terrible series of defeats on American forces but could not sweep them off the peninsula, that conflict settled into a "meatgrinder" of a stalemate in which the hope of taking significant territory faded; yet some measure of success was needed as public frustration mounted in the United States: thus began the infamous body count of enemy dead.
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As LBJ ruled significant military targets out of bounds for American bombers and General William Westmoreland adopted his "meatgrinder" strategy, a rough division of labor took shape within the GOP.
Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969 1999
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PDF file and cover image, upload it into the company's "meatgrinder" tool, and in a matter of minutes, you create your e-book in just about every format you'd want.
eCoustics.com news 2010
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PDF file and cover image, upload it into the company's "meatgrinder" tool, and in a matter of minutes, you create your e-book in just about every format you'd want.
CNET News.com 2010
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Give them your book in. doc format & they put it through their "meatgrinder" translater program and spit out a bunch of different versions of the book, including EPUB and mobipocket (kindle).
Wetmachine 2010
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Give them your book in. doc format & they put it through their "meatgrinder" translater program and spit out a bunch of different versions of the book, including EPUB and mobipocket (kindle).
Wetmachine 2010
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Give them your book in. doc format & they put it through their "meatgrinder" translater program and spit out a bunch of different versions of the book, including EPUB and mobipocket (kindle).
Wetmachine 2010
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they put it through their "meatgrinder" translater program and spit out a bunch of different versions of the book, including EPUB and mobipocket (kindle).
Wetmachine 2010
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they put it through their "meatgrinder" translater program and spit out a bunch of different versions of the book, including EPUB and mobipocket (kindle).
Wetmachine 2010
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