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tenderloin
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noun
- the tenderest part of a loin of beef, pork, etc., located on either side of the backbone and consisting of the psoas muscle
- any urban district similar to the Tenderloin
former district in New York City, in which there was much graft and corruption: so called because regarded as a choice assignment for police seeking graft
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