Cryptic crossword clue
Cut of meat in lunch in eatery 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHINE

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The straight part
We know that "Cut of meat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cut of meat = chine.
The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.
This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CHINE mean?

CHINE noun
  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. The spine of an animal.
  3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  5. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  7. The back of the blade on a scythe.
CHINE verb
  1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
CHINE noun
  1. (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
CHINE verb
  1. To crack, split, fissure, break.

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