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Meanings of meat hooks in English

Large strong hand (as of a fighter)

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        Examples for "hooks"
        Examples for "hooks"
        1
        Unfortunately, hooks's statements provoke, without creating space for difference or substantive debate.
        The Guardian
        2
        Slash hooks were used in the fight and two mea were injured.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Inside they found a large number of machetes, hatchets and bill hooks.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Light glinted and gleamed off a variety of weapons held on hooks.
        Mister Slaughter
        5
        After the stiletto the hooks of the mandibles rarely fail to intervene.
        More Hunting Wasps
        1
        I know you ain't a bad un with the maulers.
        The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
        2
        Throat slitters, leg breakers, maulers.
        The lies of locke lamora
        3
        Others were Maulers with shields and explosive flails.
        Jacinto's Remnant
        4
        'And how do you know I'm not a trifle handy with the maulers myself?'
        One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1
        Usage of meat hooks in English
        1
        The bus driver was examining the meat hooks hanging from the stone hearth.
        The new yorker
        2
        Some of those things were hanging on meat hooks with random limbs missing.
        Beyond exile: day by day armageddon
        3
        The eight meat hooks in his back and one in each leg didn't hurt a bit.
        Wired
        4
        He ruled by force, fraud, and fear; he took pleasure in hanging his enemies from meat hooks.
        Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
        5
        But The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is different: it's a bumbling childhood trauma, reconstructed with meat hooks and mallets.
        The Guardian
        6
        My eyes were a bit swollen from crying but I could see where the meat hooks were supposed to hang.
        The power of one
        7
        On the inside this building is industrial chic with chandeliers hung on meat hooks, bare shipping container walls and glamorous lighting.
        News.com.au
        8
        She saw meat hooks attached to the high ceiling and realized that she was being held in a room where animals were slaughtered.
        A Bloody Storm
        9
        Empty meat hooks in a usually fully stocked store in Smithfield Meat Market in London February 28, 2001.
        Reuters
        10
        Your forearms are blasted, you haven't drunk any water in two pitches, and the sun has turned your hands into swollen meat hooks.
        Climbing Magazine
        11
        Try slightly angling your wrist left or right to make it feel more positive; meat hooks can maximize friction and employ larger muscle groups.
        Climbing Magazine