a city district known for its vice and high crime rate
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the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
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Tenderloin \Ten"der*loin`\, n. 1. 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.
2. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
An unusual cranberry dish is a cranberry salsa to spice up any roast: turkey, ham, pork tenderloin.
"This is rather strange when you think a year ago I was in prison," Onyszkiewicz said after dining on minted cantaloupe soup and roast tenderloin of beef.
"There was nothing traditional about the menu," she says. "We had beef tenderloin and chicken almondine.
The industry group, nevertheless, defends pork's good name by citing Agriculture Department statistics showing a close comparison between three ounces of the leanest cut of chicken (skinless breast) and the leanest cut of pork (trimmed tenderloin).
Spread on a butterflied pork tenderloin; wrap in foil.