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meet market

meet market is the alternative form 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.

Forms of meet market

pluralmeet markets

Origin of meet market

From meat market (“place to meet romantic or sexual partners”), influenced by pun on meet (“encounter new person”), and to emphasize social interactions rather than physical (looking for sex).

Questions about meet market

What is meet market the alternative form of?
Meet market is the alternative form of meat market.

Words near meet market in the dictionary

  1. meet and greet
  2. meet and greets
  3. meet cute
  4. meet cutes
  5. meet halfway
  6. meet market
  7. meet markets
  8. meet me at McDonald's
  9. meet me at McDonald's haircut
  10. meet me at McDonald's haircuts
  11. meet one's doom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meet market (page history and authors); meat market (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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