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Tenderloin

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A neighborhood of varying extent in midtown Manhattan, New York known for illicit entertainment and associated police corruption. historical

    "She had butted their way out of the Tenderloin district into a spacious uptown apartment."

  2. 2
    A similar neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

    "The Tenderloin, a neighbourhood just south-west of touristy Union Square, is home to some 35,000 people in fewer than 50 cramped blocks. Drugs and destitution are out in the open."

  3. 3
    A similar neighborhood in Seattle, Washington.
Noun
  1. 1
    The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column wordnet
  3. 3
    A district of a city where corruption is common, often because the district is devoted to questionable businesses (peep shows, etc) which are easy for police to blackmail and extort. US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
  4. 4
    a city district known for its vice and high crime rate wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From tender + loin.

Etymology 2

See tenderloin.

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