meat

/mi:t/ noun

1 (U) the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food: I gave up eating meat a few months ago. | meat pie

2 (C) a type of meat: a selection of cold meats

3 (U) something that is interesting or important in a talk, book etc: The lecture was well-delivered but there wasn't much meat in it. | the meat of (=the main and most interesting part): We then got down to the real meat of the debate.

4 sb doesn't have much meat on him/her informal used to say that someone looks very thin: George doesn't have much meat on him, does he?

5 easy meat informal someone who it is easy to deceive or hurt

6 meat and drink to sb something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do: The first five questions were on basketball, which was meat and drink to Larry. | Repairing cars is meat and drink to him.

7 be the meat in the sandwich BrE informal to be friendly with two people or groups who are quarrelling

8 one man's meat is another man's poison used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else

9 the meat and potatoes AmE informal the most important part of a discussion: Let's get down to the meat and potatoes; how much are you going to pay me for this?