mincemeat

noun 4

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noun

1

A mixture of fruit, spices and suet used as a filling for mince pies.

And not to rub salt in wounds, when it comes to making mincemeat of the competition, American Joey Chestnut is still top banana.

2

Minced meat, mince.

3

A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.

Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat.

This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat.

4

Something or someone utterly destroyed.

Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you!

No one was to be spared in this frightful slaughter. The American 34th, 36th Texas, lst Armored, the British, the New Zealanders, the Indians, the Poles and the French, under the brilliant General Juin; all were to be ground to mincemeat by futile attacks against this fortress.

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