Wiktionary
n. 1 A market where meat is sold. 2 (context colloquial idiomatic English) A place where one goes for a casual sexual encounter, such as a bar (establishment) or night club. 3 (context colloquial English) A place or situation abounding in men, especially beefcake.
WordNet
n. a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold [syn: butcher shop]
Wikipedia
A meat market is, traditionally, a marketplace where meat is sold, often by a butcher. It is a specialized wet market. The term is sometimes used to refer to a meat retail store or butcher's shop, in particular in North America.
The purported link between societal gender relations and meat sales techniques and treatment of animals has also been discussed in feminist literature, including those focused on women and animal advocacy.
A meat market is a marketplace where meat is sold.
Meat market may also refer to:
- Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, a 2011 feminist book by British writer Laurie Penny
- Meat Market (film), 2000 Canadian horror film directed and written by Brian Clement
- "Meat Market", an episode in the American TV series Cupid
- Meet market, a location or activity in which people are viewed as commodities or where people typically look for a casual sex partner
- Meat packing industry, industry that handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals
- Mercado de las Carnes, the historic meat market in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Meat Market is a 2000 Canadian horror film directed and written by Brian Clement, based on a story by Nick Sheehan and Tania Willard. It stars Claire Westby and Paul Pedrosa as survivors of a zombie apocalypse who team up with a masked Mexican wrestler and a trio of vampires. The film was followed by two sequels, Meat Market 2 and Meat Market 3.
Usage examples of "meat market".
Butch Rowden over at the meat market would fess up to it, I guess - he keeps a picture of one of the cars they had up on the wall where he cuts meat.
They had no knife, so his mother was forced to drag the pig's carcass to the meat market to be butchered.
The smell was that of a meat market that had been out of ice for a month in the middle of a hot summer.
But I could tell you were saying that you believed, based on a rumor you heard last Tuesday in the meat market, that Mary was convalescing normally and would be back on her feet within a week.
Among them, they had enough chunks missing to make a pretty fair meat market.
We're moving on the day after tomorrow, down to New Lisbon -- turns out the meat market's earlier than usual this year.