Meanings
plural meatbags
- slangA stomach.
“Are you hungry?” she asked as she poured thick black coffee into a large pewter mug. “Reckon I could fill my meatbag ... Um, I mean, yeah, Ma, I could do with something to eat.”
2002, Jack Hanson, Wildgun: Winter Hunt, Jove - humorousoffensiveoftenpossiblyslangA human or another living creature with flesh in its composition.
Ripping the bong and binging cooking videos is nothing but a pass time for us meatbags. But to a sophisticated new artificial intelligence system developed in Germany, four hours of cooking videos is sufficient training for it to learn how to tell the future.
2018 June 15, Danny Paez, “A.I. Learns to Gaze into the Future By Watching Four Hours of Cooking Videos”, in Inverse.com
Origin
From meat + bag. The use as a slur for organic lifeforms – as opposed to robots or AIs – originated with the robot Bender from the animated TV series Futurama, but it became still more popular with its use by killer droid HK-47 from the Star Wars fictional universe.
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meatbag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meatbag
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