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from the sense of "meat" that refers negatively to people as in meat puppet
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Today it means: Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s). Full definition →
from the sense of "meat" that refers negatively to people as in meat puppet
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.