cattle market
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.12 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place, such as a bar or nightclub, that people visit in order to meet partners for casual sex.
Colloquial; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "The corporation had just opened its new cattle market in Islington, and it had plans for clearances in the Fleet Valley that would make way for the new Farringdon Road, and adjacent meat market."
- "That such forms of harassment remain prevalent within some mainstream spaces of night-life is remarkable in an era when young female consumers are increasingly important for the night-life industries and where many clubs have tried to move away from the ‘cattle market’ model (Chatterton and Hollands 2003)."