meat market

meat market
Noun. A place or event where the objective of a sizeable number of those frequenting is to find sexual partners. Often used with regard to nightclubs.

English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.

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  • Meat market — A meat market is, traditionally, a marketplace where meat is sold, often by a butcher. It may also refer to: Meat packing industry As an alternative spelling for meet market, a singles event or location with many single people, especially one… …   Wikipedia

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  • Meat market — place where people frequent to seek sexual partners: that bar is a real meat market …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • meat market — Australian Slang place where people frequent to seek sexual partners: that bar is a real meat market …   English dialects glossary

  • meat market — meat′ mar ket n. sl. 1) sts a place where potential sexual partners may be met 2) sts a place or situation where people are regarded as commodities • Etymology: 1870–75 …   From formal English to slang

  • meat market — /ˈmit makət/ (say meet mahkuht) noun 1. a market at which meat is bought and sold. 2. Colloquial a notional market, sometimes thought of as a specific gathering or place, in which human beings display their particular skills or attributes, to… …  

  • meat market — noun a) A market where meat is sold. b) A place where one goes for a casual sexual encounter, such as a bar (establishment) or night club …   Wiktionary

  • meat market — marketplace in which meat is sold; place where single men and women go to meet a partner for marital purposes …   English contemporary dictionary

  • meat market — noun Date: 1896 a depersonalizing environment in which people are treated as sexual or economic resources …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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