- 1[uncountable, countable] a piece of meat from the back or sides of an animal, near the tail loin of pork
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- 2loins [plural] (old-fashioned) the part of the body around the hips between the waist and the tops of the legs
- 3loins [plural] (literary) a person's sex organs Idioms
to get ready to do something difficult The company is girding its loins for a plunge into the overseas market.
Check pronunciation: loin