Meaning

4 senses
  1. Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.

    a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender

  2. Any tool used to tenderize meat before cooking.

    A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.

    Fleischhammer, Fleischklopfer

    отбивной молотокotbivnoj molotok

  3. A tool similar to a potato masher used for tenderizing

  4. A tool with nails or blades, that can be pressed on (not unlike a stapler) to puncture the meat.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Mary smashed Tom's favorite coffee mug with a meat tenderizer.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking:

Forms

plural: tenderizers
Singulartenderizer
Pluraltenderizers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender:tenderiser

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtenderize

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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