MEAT AND POTATOES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meat and potatoes mean? 

• MEAT AND POTATOES (noun)
  The noun MEAT AND POTATOES has 1 sense:

1. the fundamental part

  Familiarity information: MEAT AND POTATOES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAT AND POTATOES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fundamental part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration

Hypernyms ("meat and potatoes" is a kind of...):

base; basis; cornerstone; foundation; fundament; groundwork (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained)