minced meats

Finely chopped proteins

Minced meats are ground or finely chopped meats, or dishes made from them.

The phrase appears in recipes and grocery contexts: The butcher offers various minced meats.

In the expression to make minced meat of, it means to destroy or defeat thoroughly—reducing something to fragments like meat through a grinder.

Related

pork · fat · duck · chicken · burger · stuffed peppers · venison · patty · tacos · forcemeat · kofta · turkey · savory · chili con carne · keema · meatloaf · sausages · lasagna

Opposites
meat processing/cut size

minced meatssteak

Thick beef slice

steaks · chops · rack of lamb · whole chicken · pork loin

Family

mince, minced, mincing, minces, meat, meats, meaty, meatier, meatiest

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G