Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Meat, especially beef, that is dark-colored before being cooked.
Wiktionary
- n. Meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.
- n. uncountable, idiomatic Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information.
WordNet 3.0
- n. meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton)
Examples
“We could use more trades for meat; those gryphons are eating the larder bare, and red meat fills them up better than herd birds.”
““Mooooooooom,” I whined as she prepared that night’s dinner, something involving red meat and a few token vegetables in a crock pot.”
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“The jungle behind him would provide fruit and tubers; the meadow's inhabitants red meat for Farli.”
“The firmer varieties hold their shape on the grill or in the wok, and they work very well as red meat substitutes in barbecues or stir-frys.”
“Cookfires were lit, and a cooking pot bubbled with the smell of red meat as they cooked the terror birds.”
“Not only would it be a welcome change for him from fish, but red meat was better for Farli as well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘red meat’.
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EN - coloured collocations
The bad news: There are possibly tens of thousands of colour collocations in English. The good news is that the pictures retrieved by Wordnik from flickr will probably match the terms this time.
black currant, black eye, black pudding, blue baby, Blue Beard, blue bell, blue berry, blue blood, Blue Book, blue bottle, blue cheese, blue chip and 280 more...
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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red phrases /words
how red is used
bushy red mint, California red scale, dark red silver ore, down the red lane, Florida red scale, in red, in the red, in (the) red row, Knights of the Re..., light red silver ore, old red lammas, on red and 764 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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Reds
Inspired by hernesheir's Greens list.
blood red, red, red-backed, redbait, red-bellied, redbird, red-blooded, redbreast, red-breasted, redbrick, red-brown, redbud and 51 more...
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TT1 Lesson 5
drive thru, box, get, burger, quick, serve, all the way, pickles, medium, fries, make it, menu and 13 more...
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