meatcase

meatcase

English

Etymology

meat +‎ case

Noun

meatcase (plural meatcases)

1. A refrigerated or chilled display case for selling meat and (sometimes) cheese.
   • 2001, John R. Romans, The Meat We Eat, page 783:

     Ham, turkey ( often smoked ), chicken breast, and roast beef are whole muscle products that are often sliced and sold along side luncheon meats in the meatcase.

   • 2007, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God:

     Finally he fetched up in front of the meatcase. Mr Fox rose and donned a white apron, old bloodstains bleached light pink, tied it in the back and approached the meatcase and switched on a light that illuminated rolls of baloney and rounds of cheese and a tray of thin sliced pork chops among the sausages abd sousemeat.

   • 2011, William Gay, The Long Home:

     A chicken was ascending slowly past the chrome rim of the meatcase.