meat locker

Butcher's cold room

A meat locker is a refrigerated room or building where meat is stored at cold temperatures to preserve it.

The term often evokes large commercial spaces where carcasses hang from hooks.

Figuratively, any extremely cold room might be called a meat locker: Turn up the heat—this office is a meat locker.

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butcher · butcher shop · carcass · hanging · hooks · beef · pork · prime cuts · sides · chilled · refrigerated · slaughterhouse · frost · frozen · preservation · dry aging · walk-in · insulated

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temperature

meat lockeroven

Enclosed cooking chamber

furnace · sauna · kiln · blast furnace · hot box

storage type

meat lockerpantry

Household provisions closet

dry storage · root cellar · cupboard · larder · grain silo

temperature sensation (figurative)

meat lockerfurnace

Enclosed heat-producing structure

oven · sauna · hotbox · sweatbox · inferno

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G