meat-market

Jesse Neider for The Wall Street Journal A lot to be developed by Triangle Equities But Luis Vega , a meat-market owner who has worked in the area for more than 25 years, has mixed feelings about the development.

Projects Add Amenities to Hub in Bronx Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

"There are so many people who don't like the meat-market feel of a gym or the intimidation of not being fit and having to work out in front of others who are very fit," she says.

Feel the Burn (Not the Shame) of a Workout Class Alina Dizik 2011

For them it's just "normal" that both sexes should be totally into themselves and able to grab whatever they like from each other's make-up bags to tart themselves up for the merry-go-round meat-market that is modern life.

Caroline Hagood: Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010

While I understand the lack of decorum of some of these questions, it's fair to say that in truth if we're going to be outraged by the interviews we should be outraged by the glorified meat-market that is the NFL combine in its totality.

Let them ask 2010

Likewise, the moment a single guy in New York can no longer find X number of eligible women online after paying his $59.95 monthly fee to eHarmony is the moment he ventures out to the meat-market bars of the Upper East Side or sets up a profile on a free dating site.

Are dating Web sites past their prime? Paul Smalera 2010

For them it's just "normal" that both sexes should be totally into themselves and able to grab whatever they like from each other's make-up bags to tart themselves up for the merry-go-round meat-market that is modern life.

Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010

Likewise, the moment a single guy in New York can no longer find X number of eligible women online after paying his $59.95 monthly fee to eHarmony is the moment he ventures out to the meat-market bars of the Upper East Side or sets up a profile on a free dating site.

Are dating Web sites past their prime? 2010

They reinstate their prudishness like an insurance policy, and laugh privately at how gauche a single person can be, but they don't remember how it felt to be single and have opinions, how it felt to be unable to get fat because you'd still be on a cold rotating hook of the meat-market where they'd assess you like a butcher's cut.

Scorpionic Births: A Letter to an Unborn Daughter 2009

I think my luck at the local bar/meat-market would be smaller if I wore a shirt with “Small is the new big” on it.

Small is the new big is the new line « BuzzMachine 2006

I side-step the blood that runs near the area of the meat-market where full carcasses are strung up in the open air.

To Market, To Market Mercedes 2007