shmeat

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English

Etymology 1

Blend of sheet +‎ meat. In 2013, the word was on the shortlist for Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year.

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Noun

shmeat (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) Animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.
    Synonyms: cultured meat, clean meat
    • 2008 May 20, Ketzel Levine, “Lab-Grown Meat a Reality, But Who Will Eat It?”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 2023-11-04:
      His work involves turning formless, textureless patches of the stuff into mass-produced form — like meat sheets, or what one might affectionately call "shmeat." […] So, to recap the opinions on the state of shmeat: It's animal-friendly but bad for the environment; we have the how-to, but not the how-come; unleashing unknown technologies is fodder for nightmares.
    • 2013 August 5, Catherine Mayer, “Meet ’Schmeat’: Say Hello to the Stem-Cell Hamburger”, in Time‎, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-24:
      The ambitions for schmeat are huge, but the taste evidently falls short of a standard burger. The problem is a "technical bottleneck," Post (whose name rhymes with cost) told the audience at the Riverside Studios in West London.
    • 2013 December 1, James Palmer, “Schmeat: Where Did That Come From?”, in The Times‎, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:
      It's now an OED word of the year, though at a cost of £250,000 a burger, we won't be seeing easy schmeat any time soon[.]
    • 2015, Stuart A. Kallen, Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, Minneapolis, M.N.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 28:
      Lab meat — known as in vitro meat, cultured meat, or shmeat — was first produced by Dutch scientists in 2012. The shmeat beefburger is made from the muscle cells of cows, treated with a protein that promotes tissue growth.

References

  1. ^ “Schmeat: a tasty-sounding word, but what does it mean?”, in The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, 2013 November 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07
  2. ^ Katy Steinmetz (2013 November 18) “And Oxford's Word of the Year Is...”, in Time‎, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-23

Further reading

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

shmeat (uncountable)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Alternative form of meat (“penis”)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
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