Places where meat is prepared and packaged for sale.
Meatpackings are usually big, busy places with lots of workers and machines.
Examples:
The meatpackings is where they cut up the cows and pigs.
The meatpackings is a very cold place.
We visited the meatpackings and saw how they make sausages.
The meatpackings is where the animals become food.
The meatpackings is a very smelly place.
The meatpackings is where they turn animals into meat.