meat grinder

1. 1.

   a mill for grinding meat

   Broadermill
2. 2.

   any action resulting in injury or destruction

   “the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation”

   “allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder”

   Broaderaggression

Questions about meat grinder

What does meat grinder mean?

meat grinder means "a mill for grinding meat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is meat grinder a common word?

meat grinder is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.