"meat rack" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-meat rack.ogg [Australia] Forms: meat racks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} meat rack (plural meat racks)
  1. A rack used for storing meat.
    Sense id: en-meat_rack-en-noun-fQ66r9Wo
  2. (idiomatic, slang) A place where people can meet looking for sexual partners. Tags: idiomatic, slang Synonyms (place to find sex partners): meat market
    Sense id: en-meat_rack-en-noun-StzjUv6A Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of 'place to find sex partners': 5 95

Inflected forms

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