prime cut

Definitions

1. 1

   A top-quality serving of meat.

   • My husband brings his work home. Had he been a butcher, it might have been a prime cut of steak; a mason, a block of limestone. […] But my husband is an oncologist, so he brings home the dead and dying.
   • Not sure these old bones of mine are up to slaying any dragons, but if it's a prime cut of meat you want, I'm your guy.
2. 2

   Something that represents the best quality in its class.

   • I got no idea who he thinks is listening to us, but I register that this is prime cut information.
   • He graduated magna cum laude from ASU in three years, then promptly earned his MBA from the Wharton School. Corporate recruiters saw him as prime cut.
   • The new kid was covered in mud, the thin drizzle doing nothing to clean him off, but it was clear he was a prime cut.

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