Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meatbag

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English

Syllables: meat-bag
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Slang

noun

A human or another living creature with flesh in its composition.

Humorous; Offensive; Slang

Example Sentences

"“Are you hungry?” she asked as she poured thick black coffee into a large pewter mug. “Reckon I could fill my meatbag ... Um, I mean, yeah, Ma, I could do with something to eat.”"
"Ripping the bong and binging cooking videos is nothing but a pass time for us meatbags. But to a sophisticated new artificial intelligence system developed in Germany, four hours of cooking videos is sufficient training for it to learn how to tell the future."

Etymology

From meat + bag. The use as a slur for organic lifeforms – as opposed to robots or AIs – originated with the robot Bender from the animated TV series Futurama, but it became still more popular with its use by killer droid HK-47 from the Star Wars fictional universe.

Usage

Inflected Forms

meatbags (plural)

Phrases

meat puppet

Frequently Paired Words

meat puppet meatspace

Questions

What does meatbag mean?: A stomach.
Where does meatbag come from?: From meat + bag. The use as a slur for organic lifeforms – as opposed to robots or AIs – originated with the robot Bender from the animated TV series Futurama, but it became still more popular with its use by killer droid HK-47 from the Star Wars fictional universe.

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