mince
noun/mɪns/
/mɪns/
[uncountable] (British English)- meat, especially beef, that has been cut into very small pieces in a special machine
- a pound of mince
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMince is used before these nouns:- meat
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French mincier, based on Latin minutia ‘smallness’.Definitions on the go
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