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Tenderloin — is:* Beef tenderloin * Pork tenderloin * Tenderloin, Manhattan * Tenderloin, San Francisco, California * Tenderloin (musical) , a musical from 1960 * Tenderloin (novel), by Samuel Hopkins Adams * Tenderloin (song), A song by the punk rock group… … Wikipedia
Tenderloin — (engl. für Lendenstück, Filet) ist der Name zweier Stadtteile in den Vereinigten Staaten: Tenderloin (San Francisco) Tenderloin (Manhattan) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit dem … Deutsch Wikipedia
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 — 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 — ► 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′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 — 40° 44′ 56″ N 73° 59′ 17″ W / 40.749, 73.988 Tenderloin est un ancien quartier de … Wikipédia en Français
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 — noun Tenderloin is used before these nouns: ↑steak Tenderloin is used after these nouns: ↑beef, ↑pork … Collocations dictionary
tenderloin — ten|der|loin [ tendər,lɔın ] noun uncount meat of good quality that is cut from the side of a pig or cow: pork tenderloin the Tenderloin INFORMAL in the U.S., an area of a city that has a lot of crime … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
