tenderloin

See also: Tenderloin

English

Etymology

From tender +‎ loin.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

tenderloin (countable and uncountable, plural tenderloins)

1. The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
2. (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)