100 Words Every Butcher Shop Worker Should Know

No.	Item	Definition
1.	age	let meat mature for tenderness
2.	apron	protective work garment
3.	back ribs	ribs from loin area
4.	bacon	salt-cured pork slices
5.	beef	meat from cattle
6.	belly	underside cut, often fatty
7.	bone-in	sold with the bone
8.	boneless	sold without bones
9.	breast	front white meat section
10.	brisket	breast cut of beef
11.	broth bones	bones for making stock
12.	butcher	cut and prepare meat
13.	carcass	body of slaughtered animal
14.	chicken	meat from a chicken
15.	chop	small cut with bone
16.	chuck	beef shoulder section
17.	corned beef	salt-cured beef
18.	cure	preserve with salt
19.	cut	piece of meat
20.	cutlet	thin slice of meat
21.	debone	remove bones from meat
22.	deli meat	ready-to-eat sliced meat
23.	dress	prepare carcass for sale
24.	drumstick	lower leg of poultry
25.	duck	meat from a duck
26.	fillet	boneless tender piece
27.	flank	side cut of beef
28.	frankfurter	smoked sausage link
29.	fresh meat	uncured uncooked meat
30.	game	wild animals used as food
31.	giblets	edible poultry organs
32.	gizzard	bird digestive organ
33.	gloves	hand coverings for protection
34.	goat	meat from a goat
35.	goose	meat from a goose
36.	grind	chop meat very finely
37.	ground beef	beef minced into small pieces
38.	halal	prepared under Islamic rules
39.	ham	cured pork from the leg
40.	hang	suspend meat to age
41.	headcheese	set meat from head parts
42.	heart	edible muscular organ
43.	hock	joint above foot
44.	hook	curved hanger for meat
45.	jerky	dried seasoned meat strips
46.	joint	large roasting cut
47.	kidney	edible filtering organ
48.	knuckle	muscle above hind knee
49.	kosher	prepared under Jewish rules
50.	lamb	meat from young sheep
51.	lean	having little fat
52.	link	single sausage piece
53.	liver	large edible organ
54.	loin	tender back section of meat
55.	marbling	fat streaks within meat
56.	meat saw	saw for cutting bone
57.	mutton	meat from adult sheep
58.	neck	animal neck sold as meat
59.	offal	edible internal organs
60.	oxtail	tail used as meat
61.	pastrami	seasoned smoked cured beef
62.	pâté	seasoned meat spread
63.	pheasant	game bird used as food
64.	plate	lower front belly section
65.	pork	meat from pigs
66.	porterhouse	large loin steak
67.	quail	small game bird meat
68.	quarter	one fourth of carcass
69.	rabbit	meat from a rabbit
70.	rack	rib section cooked together
71.	rib	meat cut from rib section
72.	ribeye	steak from rib section
73.	rind	tough outer skin
74.	roast	large cut for oven cooking
75.	round	rear leg cut of beef
76.	rump	hindquarter cut
77.	sausage	seasoned ground meat in casing
78.	shank	lower leg cut
79.	short ribs	beef ribs cut short
80.	shoulder	upper foreleg cut
81.	side	half of a carcass
82.	sirloin	beef cut from loin
83.	smoke	preserve with smoke flavor
84.	spareribs	ribs from pig belly area
85.	steak	thick cut of meat
86.	suet	hard fat around kidneys
87.	T-bone	steak with T-shaped bone
88.	tenderloin	very tender loin cut
89.	thigh	upper leg of poultry
90.	tongue	edible muscle from mouth
91.	trim	remove excess fat or tissue
92.	tripe	edible stomach lining
93.	trotter	pig or calf foot
94.	turkey	meat from a turkey
95.	vacuum-pack	Seal tightly in plastic packaging
96.	veal	meat from young cattle
97.	venison	meat from deer
98.	weigh	Measure weight on a scale
99.	wing	poultry forelimb used as food
100.	wrap	Cover meat for storage or sale