meat rack

meat rack
   American
   a meeting place for male homosexuals
   Punning on meat1 and the butcher's display:
    The meat racks, the quick sex, the beatings... (J. Collins, 1981, describing a male homosexual's life)
   In obsolete British use, a meat-house was a brothel.

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