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Noun: meat grinder
Usage: N. Amer
  1. A mill for grinding meat
     
  2. Any action resulting in injury or destruction
    "the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation"; "allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder"

Derived forms: meat grinders

Type of: aggression, grinder, hostility, mill, milling machinery

Encyclopedia: Meat grinder