tenderloin

See also: Tenderloin

English

Etymology

tender +‎ loin

Pronunciation

Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

tenderloin (countable and uncountable, plural tenderloins)

The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
(dated, US slang) A district of a city where corruption is common, often because the district is devoted to questionable businesses (peep shows, etc) which are easy for police to blackmail and extort.

Synonyms

(meat): striploin, fillet, eye fillet (beef)
(neighborhood): red-light district

Hyponyms

filet mignon (beef)

Derived terms

tenderloin steak

Translations

tenderest part of a loin of meat

Bulgarian: филе n (file)
Burmese: မိုးခိုသား (my) (mui:hkuisa:)
Dutch: haas (nl), haasbiefstuk
Finnish: sisäfilee (fi)
French: filet (fr) m
Galician: raxo (gl) m, lombo (gl) m
German: Filet (de) n, Lende (de) f, Mürbebraten m
Hungarian: bélszín (hu), vesepecsenye (hu)
Norwegian: indrefilet (no) m
Polish: polędwica (pl) f
Romanian: mușchi (ro) m
Serbo-Croatian: file (sh) m
Spanish: lomo (es) m
Swedish: filé (sv) c, oxfilé (sv) c (beef tenderloin), fläskfilé (sv) (pork tenderloin)
Turkish: bonfile (tr)
Yiddish: פֿילע (file)

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