Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - meat

~ n 1 the flesh of animals and birds eaten as food  (I gave up eating meat a few months ago. | meat pie) 2 a type of meat  (a selection of cold meats) 3 something that is interesting or important in a talk, book etc  (The lecture was well-delivered but there wasn't much meat in it. | the meat of (=the main and most interesting part))  (We then got down to the real meat of the debate.) 4 sb doesn't have much meat on him/her informal used to say that someone looks very thin  (George doesn't have much meat on him, does he?) 5 easy meat informal someone who it is easy to deceive or hurt 6 meat and drink to sb something that someone enjoys doing or finds very easy to do  (The first five questions were on basketball, which was meat and drink to Larry. | Repairing cars is meat and drink to him.) 7 be the meat in the sandwich BrE informal to be friendly with two people or groups who are quarrelling 8 one man's meat is another man's poison used to say that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else 9 the meat and potatoes AmE informal the most important part of a discussion  (Let's get down to the meat and potatoes; how much are you going to pay me for this?)