Meaning & use
Mincers
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Machines or devices used to chop or grind meat and other food into very small pieces.
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The butcher fed the trimmed beef through one of the shop's heavy-duty mincers.
Home cooks once relied on hand-cranked mincers before electric versions became common.
A note on using this word
In British Cockney rhyming slang, 'mincers' (short for 'mince pies') is informal slang for a person's eyes.
Words with a similar meaning
grinderschoppers
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Another way to use it
2. noun
British informal slang for a person's eyes, from the rhyming slang 'mince pies.'
Get your mincers on this; you won't believe the view.
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