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tenderloin

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenderloin \Ten"der*loin`\, n. 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. In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ broiled beef tenderloin EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I know how you enjoy a tenderloin . ▪ Puny would spend Thursday baking bread and a cake, and he would roast a tenderloin and do the potatoes. ▪ The saddle and tenderloin can ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, "tender part of a loin of pork or beef," from tender (adj.) + 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, etc., being the "juciest ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a city district known for its vice and high crime rate [syn: combat zone ] the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column [syn: undercut ]

Usage examples of tenderloin.

Burnfingers Begay waited until everyone else had put in their order before calmly requesting tenderloin of venison filled with trout pate beneath a sour cream-champagne sauce, potatoes au gratin on the side, and haricots verts accompanied by a 1948 Bavarian Liebfraumilch.

Tenderloin as a form of revenge against the pack of Bone Gnawers who had blackballed him for smoking crack.

The last time you blackballed someone, that Garou came into the Tenderloin killing homeless as a form of revenge.

And add their own currency to the accounting of mulattoes that inhabited the mostly black denizenship of the Tenderloin and elsewhere.

They slept wherever they were admitted, usually among the poor and the pariahs in the skid rows and tenderloins and cribs of Europe, America and Asia.

Likewise, immense quantities of bacon, headcheese, pork chops, tenderloin .

Gone were all the characteristics of the political Czar and the Mng of the Tenderloin and in their place, now that he was safe from the prying eyes of his henchmen, appeared the immobile slant eyed features of a Chinaman.

The mostly American-grown feast included smoked marinated shrimp, roast tenderloin of beef, baby vegetables in a zucchini basket and Yukon Gold potatoes with Vidalia onions.

It creeps over the entire city, over the monuments and movie theaters, over the Panhandle dope dens and the flophouses in the Tenderloin.

At each place there was a printed menu: Smoked whitefish on triangles of spoon bread with mustard broccoli coulis Black bean soup with conchiglie (pasta shells) Roast tenderloin of lamb in a crust of Pine nuts, mushrooms, and cardamom Pur‚e of Hubbard squash and leeks Pear chutney Crusty rolls Spinach and redleaf lettuce with ginger Vinaigrette and garnished with goat cheese Baked apples with peppercorn sauce Mildred said, "The menu is built around local products: lamb, whitefish, beans, squash, goat cheese, pears, and apples.

With a manicured little finger pointing to the sky, he sprinkles out some integrated ants and before long we are scooping up beef tenderloin calabrese.

He whacked at a huge tenderloin with the butcher's knife, and whacked again.

He started upstairs to carve the tenderloin - or whatever one called the cut of beef that Mountclemens supplied for catfood - and noted that Koko did not bound ahead of him.

My homecoming deportment on the average evening generally reinforced her suspicion that it was state of mind, not professional obligation, that drew me to the dance halls and gaming tables of the Tenderloin every night.

In addition to combing those Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, and Tenderloin blocks that were known to harbor such characters, we revisited all of the disorderly houses that preferred boy-whores.