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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]meatgrinder (plural meatgrinders)
- A device for cutting meat into very small pieces.
- Keep your fingers away from the throat of the meatgrinder.
- (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.
- (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
[edit]device for cutting meat
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physically dangerous or wearing activity
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process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way
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