cattle market

English

Noun

cattle market (plural cattle markets)

1. A market where people buy and sell cows.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     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.

2. (colloquial, derogatory) A place, such as a bar or nightclub, that people visit in order to meet partners for casual sex.

   Synonym: meat market

   • 2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 140:

     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).