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English

mincemeat

noun

Meaning

  1. A mixture of fruit, spices and sugar used as a filling for mince pies.
  2. Minced meat, mince.
  3. (by analogy) A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.
  4. (by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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