short loin

1. 1.

   the portion of the loin from which porterhouse steaks are cut

   Broaderloin

Questions about short loin

What does short loin mean?

short loin means "the portion of the loin from which porterhouse steaks are cut".

Is short loin a common word?

short loin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.