meat market

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n.
  1. A market where meat is sold.
  2. Slang. An establishment, such as a nightclub, where one looks for a sexual partner.
  3. Slang. A location or circumstance, such as an audition, where people are viewed as commodities.

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A place or area where prostitutes ply their trade; also, a place frequented by people (heterosexuals or homosexuals) in search of sexual partners. (1896 —) .
J. Osborne Every tart and pansy boy in the district are in that place....It's just a meat-market (1957).

[From obs. slang meat noun, prostitute.]


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