" meat "

[Noun]  | "meat" | \ ˈmēt \

1: food; especially : solid food as distinguished from drink

2: the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering (such as a husk or shell)

3: animal tissue considered especially as food:

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English mete "food, meal," going back to Old English, going back to Germanic *mati- (whence Old Saxon meti, mat "food," Old High German maz, Old Norse matr, Gothic mats), perhaps going back to Indo-European *mod-i-, derivative of a verbal base *med- "become full," whence Greek mestós "full, satiated";

[Noun]  | "meat and potatoes" 

1: the most interesting or fundamental part : meat

Origin: 1951 ;

[Noun]  | "meat-ax" | \ ˈmēt-ˌaks \

1: cleaver

2: an extreme or heavy-handed method of cutting or altering something

Origin: 1831 ;

[Noun]  | "meat loaf" 

1: a dish of ground meat seasoned and baked in the form of a loaf

Origin: 1892 ;

[Noun]  | "meat market" 

1: a depersonalizing environment in which people are treated as sexual or economic resources

Origin: 1896 ;

[Noun]  | "meat sweats" 

1: an increase in perspiration after consuming excessive quantities of meat

Origin: 2003 ;

[Noun]  | "dead meat" 

1: one that is doomed

Origin: 1849 ;

[Noun]  | "red meat" 

1: meat (such as beef) that is red when raw

2: something substantial that can satisfy a basic need or appetite

Origin: 1792 ;

[Noun]  | "variety meat" 

1: an edible part (such as the liver or tongue) of a slaughter animal other than skeletal muscle

Origin: 1942 ;

[Adjective]  | "meat-and-po*ta*toes" | \ ˈmēt-ən(d)-pə-ˈtā-(ˌ)tōz \

1: of fundamental importance : basic; also : concerned with or emphasizing the basic aspects of something

2: unpretentious, simple

3: providing or preferring simple food (such as meat and potatoes)

Origin: 1846 ;

[Noun]  | "meat" 

[Noun]  | "red meat" 

[Noun]  | "variety meat" 

[Adjective]  | "meat-and-potatoes" 

[Plural noun]  | "meat and potatoes"