meat rack

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Noun

meat rack (plural meat racks)

1. A rack used for storing meat.
2. (idiomatic, slang) A place where people can meet looking for sexual partners.
   • 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, page 48:

     Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the "meat rack" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...

Synonyms

• (place to find sex partners): meat market