meatcase

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noun

A refrigerated or chilled display case for selling meat and (sometimes) cheese.

Scrabble 12

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nounmeatcase (plural meatcases)

plural meatcases

  1. A refrigerated or chilled display case for selling meat and (sometimes) cheese.

    A chicken was ascending slowly past the chrome rim of the meatcase.

    2011, William Gay, The Long Home
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    Ham, turkey ( often smoked ), chicken breast, and roast beef are whole muscle products that are often sliced and sold along side luncheon meats in the meatcase.

    2001, John R. Romans, The Meat We Eat, page 783

    Finally he fetched up in front of the meatcase. Mr Fox rose and donned a white apron, old bloodstains bleached light pink, tied it in the back and approached the meatcase and switched on a light that illuminated rolls of baloney and rounds of cheese and a tray of thin sliced pork chops among the sausages abd sousemeat.

    2007, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

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