meat grinder

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meat grinder (plural meat grinders)

  1. Alternative form of meatgrinder
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 195:
      Watching the baby Leatherbacks going like the blazes for the black waters where the majority of them would be eaten by other animals before they grew any bigger than a child's fist, and where most of the survivors would probably be chewed up in the meat grinder of human civilization.