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meat markets

meat markets is the plural of meat market.

Meaning of meat market

Noun

meat market (plural meat markets)

  1. A market where meat is sold.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) A place where one goes to find a date or a casual sexual encounter, such as a bar (establishment) or nightclub.
    • The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night.1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group
    Synonyms:
    meet market
  3. (colloquial) A place or situation abounding in men, especially beefcake.

Questions about meat markets

What is meat markets the plural of?
Meat markets is the plural of meat market.

Words near meat markets in the dictionary

  1. meat keeper
  2. meat keepers
  3. meat loaf
  4. meat lovers'
  5. meat market
  6. meat markets
  7. meat off
  8. meat offering
  9. meat offerings
  10. meat on one's bones
  11. meat on the bones

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