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Definition of 'tenderloin'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tenderloin
(in beef or pork) the tender meat of the muscle running through the sirloin and terminating before the ribs.

2.  tenderloin
(cap.)

3.  tenderloin
(formerly) a district in New York City noted for corruption and vice: so called because police there could eat well from their bribes.

4.  tenderloin
a similar district in any U.S. city.

Etymology: (1820–30, Amer.)

Definition of 'tenderloin'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) combat zone, tenderloin
a city district known for its vice and high crime rate

2. (noun) tenderloin, undercut
the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column

Definition of 'tenderloin'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tenderloin
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

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