- Tenderloin district
Tenderloin District may refer to:
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Tenderloin, Manhattan
*Tenderloin, San Francisco, California
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tenderloin district — or tenderloin section, Tenderloin. (Cf. ↑Tenderloin) … Useful english dictionary
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
