Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

frankenmeat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: franken-meat
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.

Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective."
"I think that’s already “frankenmeat,” which has been around since at least 2011, although I’m now entertaining myself by coming up with terrible alternatives: GrowMeat. ManuFlesh. Okay, yes, this is hard."
"These frankenmeats first debuted in August 2013 when Dr Mark Post from the Maastricht University cooked and ate the world’s first lab-grown burger at a press conference."

Etymology

From franken- + meat.

Usage

Inflected Forms

frankenmeats (plural)

Questions

What does frankenmeat mean?: Artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.
Where does frankenmeat come from?: From franken- + meat.

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