meat-ax

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [meet aks]
- /mit æks/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [meet aks]
- /mit æks/

Definitions of meat-ax word

adjective meat-ax drastic or severe: meat-ax defense cuts. 1
adjective meat-ax favoring or advocating drastic reductions: a meat-ax approach to the budget. 1
noun meat-ax cleaver (def 2). 1
noun meat-ax Informal. a drastic or ruthless procedure or approach, especially for reducing or trimming something, as expenditures: The committee used a meat ax on the recreation budget. 1

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Origin of meat-ax

First appearance:

before 1825

One of the 37% newest English words

First recorded in 1825-35

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Parts of speech for Meat-ax

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Meat-ax

meat-ax popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 46% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 61% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.