Meat hook

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For other uses, see Meat hook (disambiguation).
Meat hooks at a butcher.
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Meat hooks at a butcher.

A meat hook is a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. It is also the term for an implement used to move carcasses consisting of a heavy metal hook with a T-shaped handle.