Usually means: Chop food into very small pieces.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mince: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mince: Merriam-Webster
  3. mince: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mince: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mince: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mince: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mince, mince: Wordnik
  8. mince: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mince: Wiktionary
  10. mince: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mince: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mince: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mince, mince: Dictionary.com
  14. mince: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mince: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MINCE, Mince (dish), Mince: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mince: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mince: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mince: Rhymezone
  20. mince: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mince: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Mince: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. mince: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mince: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. mince: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MINCE: Acronym Finder
  2. mince: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mince, mince: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mince: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See minced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
noun:  (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
noun:  (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
noun:  (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
noun:  (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
noun:  (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
verb:  (transitive) To make less; to make small.
verb:  (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
verb:  (archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of.
verb:  To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
verb:  (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

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