meatgrinder

English

A crank-powered meat grinder

Meat grinder in use

Alternative forms

• meat grinder, meat-grinder

Etymology

From meat +‎ grinder.

Noun

meatgrinder (plural meatgrinders)

1. A device for cutting meat into very small pieces.

   Keep your fingers away from the throat of the meatgrinder.

2. (informal) An activity with a high casualty or attrition rate, such as a military battle or an occupational or athletic activity.

   The mountainous second day of the race was a real meatgrinder, with 20% of racers dropping out.

   • 2015 February 11, Sydney Freedberg, 4,817 Targets: How Six Months Of Airstrikes Have Hurt ISIL (Or Not)‎^[1]:

     Last year’s lightning advances gave way to local stalemates and a meatgrinder battle for Kobani, where ISIL troops massing to attack the Kurds on the ground made themselves easy targets for the Americans in the air.

3. (informal) A process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way.

   Senate confirmation hearings are a real meatgrinder, discouraging people from government service.

   • 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     A world all too ready to swallow Their Kind in its all consuming meat grinder.

Translations

device for cutting meat

• Arabic: فَرّامَةُ لَحْم f (farrāmatu laḥm)
• Armenian: մլաղաց (mlaġacʻ)
• Azerbaijani: ətçəkən
• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Bulgarian: месомела́чка f (mesomeláčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絞肉機／绞肉机 (zh) (jiǎoròujī), 碎肉器 (zh) (suìròuqì)

• Czech: mlýnek na maso m
• Danish: kødhakkemaskine c, hakkemaskine c
• Dutch: gehaktmolen (nl) m
• Estonian: hakklihamasin
• Faroese: kjøtkvørn, kvørn
• Finnish: lihamylly (fi)
• French: hachoir (fr) m
• Georgian: ხორცსაკეპი (xorcsaḳeṗi)
• German: Fleischwolf (de) m
• Hungarian: húsdaráló (hu)
• Icelandic: hakkavél f
• Italian: tritacarne (it) m
• Japanese: 挽肉機 (ひきにくき, hikinikuki), 挽肉器 (ひきにくき, hikinikuki), ミンサー (minsā)
• Kazakh: еттартқыш (ettartqyş)
• Korean: 세절기(細切機) (sejeolgi)
• Kyrgyz: эт туурагыч машина (et tuuragıc maşina)
• Lithuanian: mėsmalė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøttkvern (no) m or f, kvern (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kvern f

• Persian: چرخ گوشت (čarx-e gušt)
• Polish: maszynka do mielenia mięsa f
• Portuguese: moedor (pt) m
• Romanian: mașină de tocat f
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Slovak: mlynček na mäso m
• Spanish: picadora f, máquina de picar carne f
• Swedish: köttkvarn (sv) c, hackmaskin c
• Tajik: гӯшткӯбак (güštkübak), гӯштқимакунак (güštqimakunak), мошини гӯшткӯбӣ (mošin-i güštkübi)
• Turkish: kıyma makinesi
• Udmurt: сӥлькоран (siľkoran)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)
• Uzbek: myasorubka (uz), goʻshtqiymalagich
• Vietnamese: máy băm thịt
• Welsh: grinder cig, malwr cig

physically dangerous or wearing activity

• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Finnish: verilöyly (fi)
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)

process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way

• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Finnish: piinapenkki (fi)
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)