cattle market

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a cattle market (British, American & Australian, informal, American & Australian, informal)

a place where people go to see sexually attractive women or to find sexual partners. Beauty contests are just cattle markets. That new nightclub called The Venue is awful - it's a real meat market.

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There was a motor-car with an old lady swathed in blue veils, and a lady's maid on the seat opposite, holding a King Charles's spaniel; there was a country-woman wheeling a perambulator full of sticks down the middle of the road; there was a bailiff in gaiters discussing the state of the cattle market with a dissenting minister--so she defined them. Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context More results

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There was a motor-car with an old lady swathed in blue veils, and a lady's maid on the seat opposite, holding a King Charles's spaniel; there was a country-woman wheeling a perambulator full of sticks down the middle of the road; there was a bailiff in gaiters discussing the state of the cattle market with a dissenting minister--so she defined them.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

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