Crossword clues for tenderloin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef
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]
Wikipedia
Tenderloin may refer to:
Tenderloin is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock, their follow-up to the highly successful Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! a year earlier. The musical is based on a 1959 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Set in the Tenderloin, a red-light district in 1890s Manhattan, the show's story focuses on Reverend Brock, a character loosely based on American clergyman and social reformer Charles Henry Parkhurst.
Tenderloin (1928) is a Part-talkie crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. While the film was a part-talkie, it was mostly a silent film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects on Vitaphone discs. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.
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.