Meanings
nounmeat grinder (plural meat grinders)
plural meat grinders
- alternativeAlternative spelling of meatgrinder.
Watching the baby Leatherbacks going like the blazes for the black waters where the majority of them would be eaten by other animals before they grew any bigger than a child's fist, and where most of the survivors would probably be chewed up in the meat grinder of human civilization.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 195
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