Tenderloin vs. Loin

Tenderloinnoun

The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.

Tenderloinnoun

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.

Tenderloinnoun

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.

Tenderloinnoun

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.

Tenderloinnoun

a city district known for its vice and high crime rate

Tenderloinnoun

the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column

Loinnoun

The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips

Loinnoun

Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal

Loinnoun

That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

Loinnoun

A cut of meat taken from this part of a food animal, as from cattle or hogs.

Loinnoun

The pubic area; the genitalia, especially in women; as, receptive loins.

Loinnoun

a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump

Loinnoun

either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds

Loinnoun

the part of the body on both sides of the spine between the lowest (false) ribs and the hip bones.

Loinnoun

the region of the sexual organs regarded as the source of erotic or procreative power

Loinnoun

a joint of meat that includes the vertebrae of the loins

Loin

The loins, or lumbus, are the sides between the lower ribs and pelvis, and the lower part of the back. The term is used to describe the anatomy of humans and quadrupeds, such as horses, pigs, or cattle.