man-meat

English

Alternative forms

• manmeat

Noun

man-meat (uncountable)

1. Human flesh consumed as meat.
   • 1903, Frank Charles Bostock, The Training of Wild Animals‎, page 115:

     When the rash hunter came to see whether the bait had been touched, the lion sprang on him, preferring fresh man-meat to the bait inside the trap .

   • 2009, Peter Allison, Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos‎, page 4:

     I had hoped that she [the lioness] would be so intent on her prey that she'd ignore me, or by some miracle not notice me at all, but the pig had been correct and she was forced to choose between bacon or man-meat.

   • 2013, Paul Murgatroyd, Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature, unnumbered page:

     And this Cyclops is something of a gourmet: he fancies manmeat as a change from eating stags and lions, and he actually cooks his two Greek victims.

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2. (slang) An attractive, sexually-enticing man, or a group of such men.
   • 2006, Rose Beecham, Sleep of Reason, unnumbered page:

     Tonya let her eyes return to the man-meat across the room. She tried to remember his name. Something foreign. Andre. No, Vincente. The guy had his own car repair shop. He looked like Ricky Martin.

   • 2011, Stephanie Bond, Kill the Competition, unnumbered page:

     Eight floors down, a half-dozen shirtless men were stacking stone around the bases of newly planted trees. Blonds, brunettes, tall, stocky—it was a veritable smorgasbord of bronzed man-meat.

   • 2016, Kate Siegel, Mother, Can You Not?‎, page 136:

     […] There's so much gorgeous manmeat at Princeton. What about Tim? Now that's the kind of sperminator I went after in college. Big hunky wrestler guy."

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3. (slang, vulgar) A man's penis.
   • 1985 January 10, personals ad, Bay Area Reporter, page 30:

     Athletic hunk ready to put my manmeat to work on you.

   • 1989, First Hand‎, page 56:

     As he moved closer, I could see the outline of his manmeat through his Speedo.

   • 2021, Lacy Wren, Naughty Night Club Hookup‎, page 9:

     My lips formed a seal around his manmeat.

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Synonyms

• (human meat): long pig, long pork, the other white meat
• (penis): see Thesaurus:penis

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