tenderloin district

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• tenderloin district — or tenderloin section, Tenderloin. (Cf. ↑Tenderloin) …   Useful english dictionary

• Tenderloin district — may refer to:*Tenderloin, Manhattan *Tenderloin, San Francisco, California …   Wikipedia

• tenderloin section — tenderloin district or tenderloin section, Tenderloin. (Cf. ↑Tenderloin) …   Useful english dictionary

• Tenderloin, Manhattan — The Tenderloin was a once seedy neighborhood in the heart of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Police Captain Alexander Williams allegedly coined the term in the late 1870s. [ [http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/html/3100/retro 20.html… …   Wikipedia

• tenderloin —    American    associated with promiscuity and other illegality    Alluding to the choice cuts which the police might take in bribery:     ... she was a dancer or an entertainer met on one of his tenderloin expeditions. (Winchester, 1998)    A… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• tenderloin — ☆ tenderloin [ten′dər loin΄ ] n. 1. the tenderest part of a loin of beef, pork, etc., located on either side of the backbone and consisting of the psoas muscle 2. [usually T ] any urban district similar to TENDERLOIN the …   English World dictionary

• tenderloin — ► NOUN 1) the tenderest part of a loin of beef, pork, etc., taken from under the short ribs in the hindquarters. 2) US the undercut of a sirloin. 3) N. Amer. informal a district of a city where vice and corruption are prominent. [ORIGIN:… …   English terms dictionary

• Tenderloin — Ten der*loin , n. 1. A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. [1913 Webster] 2. In New York City, the region which is the center… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• tenderloin — 1828, tender part of a loin of pork or beef, from TENDER (Cf. tender) (adj.) + LOIN (Cf. loin). The slang meaning police district noted for vice appeared first 1887 in New York, on the notion of the neighborhood of the chief theaters, restaurants …   Etymology dictionary

• Tenderloin — [ten′dər loin΄] the former district in New York City, in which there was much graft and corruption: so called because regarded as a choice assignment for police seeking graft …   English World dictionary

• Tenderloin, San Francisco, California — ambox type = content text = The of this {1|article or section} may be compromised by : wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms or finding which… …   Wikipedia