hanger steak

noun

: a steak cut from the beef diaphragm

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The meat is cut down into hundreds of different products: several different flavors of brats, beef bacon, oxtail, beef tongue, rump roast, hanger steak, short ribs, skirt steak, bone broth, etc. Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025 For serious indulgence, the hanger steak shines—rosy and rich with mushroom purée, crispy cabbage, smoky bacon, and velvety jus. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025 Where to Eat: Shitake mushroom dumplings and Brazilian hanger steak are on the menu at Barley & Salt Taphouse Irish pub May Kelly’s Cottage serves up shepherd’s pie and potato cakes. Melanie Haiken, Outside Online, 23 July 2025 What followed was a family-style meal loosely inspired by Peruvian-Asian cuisine: heirloom tomatoes flecked in tomato powder and tossed with crispy shallots; a tangy ceviche of shrimp and whitefish; marinated hanger steak with an aji amarillo paste; and roast chicken in verde sauce. David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hanger steak

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First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hanger steak was in 1977

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“Hanger steak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hanger%20steak. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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