General
sausage factory
What does sausage factory mean?
Slang for a gym floor crowded almost entirely with large, muscular men and few or no women.
"Saturday mornings that place is a total sausage factory."
Origin
Play on 'sausage fest'; gym slang for a male-dominated crowd.
Frequently asked questions
What does sausage factory mean at a gym?
It's slang for a gym floor packed almost entirely with big, muscular men and few or no women.
Where does the term sausage factory come from?
It's a play on 'sausage fest,' the older slang for any heavily male-dominated setting, applied here to the gym crowd.
Is sausage factory a rude term?
It's crude humor rather than a serious insult, usually a jokey way to describe a male-heavy gym at peak hours.
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