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1
animal and especially mammal tissue used as food
- we need to go shopping; there's only enough meat in the freezer for one more dinner
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2
substances intended to be eaten
- offered his guests meat and drink
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3
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
- he dances all around it without ever addressing the meat of the issue
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- bottom line,
- bull's-eye,
- centerpiece,
- core,
- crux,
- essence,
- gist,
- heart,
- kernel,
- keynote,
- meat and potatoes,
- net,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nucleus,
- pith,
- pivot,
- point,
- root,
- sum
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