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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} fresh meat (uncountable)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, meat. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-fresh_meat-en-noun-unt9ErTR
  2. (informal) A person or group of people who arouse one's interest, either as a new target for deception, humiliation or ridicule, or as a potential love interest or one-night stand. Tags: informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fresh_meat-en-noun-FLIt8XUL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 52 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 55 42 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 58 39 Synonyms: comeling, newling, offcomer, blow-in [Ireland], come-here [US, dialectal], comeling [obsolete], entrant, FOB [derogatory, sometimes], fresh meat [informal], freshie [UK], greener [derogatory, slang], incomer, Johnny-come-lately, Johnny Raw, new chum [Australia, dated, derogatory, mildly], newcomer, newbie, newling, offcomer, outcomeling, stranger
  3. (informal) Any newcomer. Tags: informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fresh_meat-en-noun-ncDetCHC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 52 45 Synonyms: inceptor, neophyte, noob, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, amateur, beginner, bun [Internet, slang], colt, first-timer, fledgling [figuratively], fresh meat, freshman [obsolete], greenhorn [US], greenie [US, slang], greener [derogatory, slang], homo novus [rare], inceptor, initiate, Johnny-come-lately [idiomatic], learner, neophyte, newbie [slang], newb [Internet, pejorative, slang], newbro, new chum [Australia], newcomer, newling, noob [Internet, pejorative, slang], n00b [Internet, pejorative, slang], novice, novitiate, nozzer [dated, derogatory, slang], nub [Internet, pejorative, slang], nubcake [Internet, pejorative, rare, slang], puny [obsolete], pup, probationer, probationist, probie, recruit, stranger, rookie, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, younker [obsolete]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (142890b and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.