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tenderloin
name 3noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
2
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.
name
1
A neighborhood of varying extent in midtown Manhattan, New York known for illicit entertainment and associated police corruption.
She had butted their way out of the Tenderloin district into a spacious uptown apartment.
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
A similar neighborhood in Seattle, Washington.
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