RAW MEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raw meat mean? 

• RAW MEAT (noun)
  The noun RAW MEAT has 1 sense:

1. uncooked meat

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAW MEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uncooked meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("raw meat" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raw meat"):

gobbet (a lump or chunk of raw meat)

 Context examples 

Raw meat may become contaminated during slaughter.

(Foodborne Illness, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

We need to carry on cooking chicken well and never to alternately handle raw meat and salad.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

He had worn through the blanket-wrappings, and his feet were shapeless lumps of raw meat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man’s hand.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If I had permitted him, I am satisfied that Traddles would have made a perfect savage of himself, and eaten a plateful of raw meat, to express enjoyment of the repast; but I would hear of no such immolation on the altar of friendship, and we had a course of bacon instead; there happening, by good fortune, to be cold bacon in the larder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His knees had become raw meat like his feet, and though he padded them with the shirt from his back it was a red track he left behind him on the moss and stones.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)