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- noun Plural form of
meathook .
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Examples
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He solves the perennial problem of the "witches" by using his new hi-tech to fly in three children hanging from meathooks, who sing an Agnus Dei and then get on with the business of prophecy.
A Blessing—Not a Curse Paul Levy 2011
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But with the colour relationships between the redneck posse and Jones, the dehumanisation in the way the corpses are handled with meathooks opens up a whole new level of real-world horror.
Racebending and Integration Hal Duncan 2010
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While he's out on the road the insurance lobbyists will get their meathooks into congress and undo any good that his speech will do tonight.
Obama to take health care pitch on the road this weekend 2009
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Now Saw deserves its classification for gratuitous violence people hung up with meathooks, limbs being twisted asunder and so on.
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"[A]s often as female characters in grindhouse films ended to end up on meathooks or on their back (or both), the genre served up some of the toughest, meanest, righteous, resourceful ladies to ever grace the screen (Switchblade Sisters, re-released a few years back by Tarantino himself, is a prime example)," writes Dan Mucha at Facets Features.
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I guess Cheney, who went out of office with single-digit approval ratings, is seeking to determine just how utterly despised a politician can be (hint: Mussolini was shot, hung upside-down on meathooks, and then stoned by an angry public).
When The Hour Is Late, And Things Aren't Going So Great ... Just Fabricate 2009
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How about we take all the folks who leaked information during the war on terror and hung them from meathooks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Counterterrorism and the Obama Administration”: 2009
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Now Saw deserves its classification for gratuitous violence people hung up with meathooks, limbs being twisted asunder and so on.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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How about we take all the folks who leaked information during the war on terror and hung them from meathooks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Counterterrorism and the Obama Administration”: 2009
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The alternative is to let the goddam pols and bureaucrats sink their meathooks into every aspect of our lives.
tammanycall commented on the word meathooks
The hands or fists.
April 7, 2009