meatgrinder

English

A crank-powered meat grinder

Meat grinder in use

Alternative forms

• meat grinder, meat-grinder

Etymology

meat +‎ grinder

Noun

meatgrinder (plural meatgrinders)

1. A device for cutting meat into very small pieces.

   Keep your fingers away from the throat of the meatgrinder.

2. (informal) An activity with a high casualty or attrition rate, such as a military battle or an occupational or athletic activity.
   • 2015 February 11, Sydney Freedberg, 4,817 Targets: How Six Months Of Airstrikes Have Hurt ISIL (Or Not)‎^[1]:

     Last year’s lightning advances gave way to local stalemates and a meatgrinder battle for Kobani, where ISIL troops massing to attack the Kurds on the ground made themselves easy targets for the Americans in the air.

   The mountainous second day of the race was a real meatgrinder, with 20% of racers dropping out.

3. (informal) A process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way.
   • 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     A world all too ready to swallow Their Kind in its all consuming meat grinder.

   Senate confirmation hearings are a real meatgrinder, discouraging people from government service.

Translations

device for cutting meat

• Arabic: فَرّامَةُ لَحْم f (farrāmatu laḥm)
• Armenian: մլաղաց (mlaġacʻ)
• Azerbaijani: ətçəkən
• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Bulgarian: месомела́чка f (mesomeláčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絞肉機／绞肉机 (zh) (jiǎoròujī), 碎肉器 (zh) (suìròuqì)

• Czech: mlýnek na maso m
• Danish: kødhakkemaskine c, hakkemaskine c
• Dutch: gehaktmolen (nl) m
• Estonian: hakklihamasin
• Faroese: kjøtkvørn, kvørn
• Finnish: lihamylly (fi)
• French: hachoir (fr) m
• Georgian: ხორცსაკეპი (xorcsaḳeṗi)
• German: Fleischwolf (de) m
• Hungarian: húsdaráló (hu)
• Icelandic: hakkavél f
• Italian: tritacarne (it) m
• Japanese: 挽肉機 (ひきにくき, hikinikuki), 挽肉器 (ひきにくき, hikinikuki), ミンサー (minsā)
• Kazakh: еттартқыш (ettartqyş)
• Korean: 세절기(細切機) (sejeolgi)
• Kyrgyz: эт туурагыч машина (et tuuragıc maşina)
• Lithuanian: mėsmalė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøttkvern (no) m or f, kvern (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kvern f

• Persian: چرخ گوشت (čarx-e gušt)
• Polish: maszynka do mielenia mięsa f
• Portuguese: moedor (pt) m
• Romanian: mașină de tocat f
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Slovak: mlynček na mäso m
• Spanish: picadora f, máquina de picar carne f
• Swedish: köttkvarn (sv) c, hackmaskin c
• Tajik: гӯшткӯбак (güštkübak), гӯштқимакунак (güštqimakunak), мошини гӯшткӯбӣ (mošini güštkübī)
• Turkish: kıyma makinesi
• Udmurt: сӥлькоран (siľkoran)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)
• Uzbek: myasorubka (uz), goʻshtqiymalagich
• Vietnamese: máy băm thịt
• Welsh: grinder cig, malwr cig

physically dangerous or wearing activity

• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Finnish: verilöyly (fi)
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)

process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way

• Belarusian: мясару́бка f (mjasarúbka)
• Finnish: piinapenkki (fi)
• Russian: мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Ukrainian: м'ясору́бка (uk) f (mʺjasorúbka)