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  • noun Alternative spelling of meat hook.

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Examples

  • Mother dead in childbirth, see, orphaned when his old man was killed for his gambling debts, hung by handcuffs on an abbatoir meathook and shot dead as the boy watched from his hiding-place.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Mother dead in childbirth, see, orphaned when his old man was killed for his gambling debts, hung by handcuffs on an abbatoir meathook and shot dead as the boy watched from his hiding-place.

    A Homage to Heroes Hal Duncan 2010

  • For three days and nights, Inanna's rotting corpse hung from the meathook.

    Archive 2009-05-01 lili 2009

  • Slamming a bag of salt on an amputated leg while hanging him on a meathook … ouch.

    Top 10 Best Modern Horror Remakes » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • So she declared that Inanna was to be turned into a corpse and hung on a meathook.

    Archive 2009-05-01 lili 2009

  • And so Inanna returned to her home with the memory of hanging on the meathook fresh in her mind, the memory of how it felt to be stripped of her clothes and power.

    Inanna and Ereshkigal lili 2009

  • And so Inanna returned to her home with the memory of hanging on the meathook fresh in her mind, the memory of how it felt to be stripped of her clothes and power.

    Archive 2009-05-01 lili 2009

  • So she declared that Inanna was to be turned into a corpse and hung on a meathook.

    Inanna and Ereshkigal lili 2009

  • For three days and nights, Inanna's rotting corpse hung from the meathook.

    Inanna and Ereshkigal lili 2009

  • To the man who told me he didn't believe bin Laden was buried at sea "according to Muslim rites," I repeat that Mussolini was hung upside down on a meathook and then urinated upon.

    Britain Goes Wobbly on Terror Andrew Roberts 2011

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