MINCEMEAT


Meaning of MINCEMEAT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

make

It made mincemeat of CoreTest, returning data transfer rates in excess of 1.5Mb/sec.

She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.

This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.

A hostile Public Prosecutor would make mincemeat of her.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A specially good recipe within my family is the combination of fresh pineapple cubes with fruit mincemeat .

As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat .

In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture.

She also wants a mincemeat cookie recipe which she saw in a cookbook some 30 years ago.

She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.

Stir the brandy into the mincemeat and spoon on to cases.

This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.

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