mincemeat

1. (rare) Minced meat, mince.Synonyms: ground meat, mincecountablerareuncountable

2. (by analogy) A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.Examples: "Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat."; "This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat."; "His chest and neck turned into mincemeat. The double chin had been blown away completely, revealing a skeletal jaw and chemically whitened teeth."countableuncountable

3. (by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed.Examples: "Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you!"; "No one was to be spared in this frightful slaughter. The American 34th, 36th Texas, lst Armored, the British, the New Zealanders, the Indians, the Poles and the French, under the brilliant General Juin; all were to be ground to mincemeat by futile attacks against this fortress."; ""He said his client had been receiving death threats and he was quite paranoid. "His exact words were: 'I think he's mincemeat by now'.""broadlycountableuncountable