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pork chop
[pork1.]
1. A slice of pork (chop n.1 2 b).
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pork-chop, a slice from the rib of a pig. 1872Punch 3 Feb. 46/2 The menu consisted of sausages..and pork-chops.
2. An American black who accepts an inferior position in relation to whites. Chiefly attrib. U.S. slang.
1970Rep. 20th Ann. Round Table Meeting Lang. & Ling. Stud., Georgetown Univ. 9 CR: Who can make magic? Greg: The son of po'—... I'm saying' the po'k chop God! He only a po'k chop God! Ibid. 36 A pork chop is a Negro who has not lost traditional subservient ideology of the South..and the pork chop God would be the traditional God of the Southern Baptists. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Aug. 35/1 This is the year of the Bionic Black, and porkchop nationalists have lost prestige.
Hence ˌpork-ˈchopper U.S. slang, a full-time union official (see quots.).
1946N.Y. Times 11 Aug. iv. 7/7 In the UAW, the rank and file call those who live by income derived from the union ‘pork-choppers’. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §527/2 Pork-chopper, an official who is in the union for self-interested reasons. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 403/1 Pork-chopper, a political appointee, union official, or relative or friend of a politician, union officer, or the like, who receives payment for little or no work; one who is put on a payroll as a favor or as a return for past services. 1968Economist 2 Nov. 30/2 They feel mostly contempt for the ‘pork-chopper’—the former factory workers who have become full-time members of the union staff. 1977Time 17 Jan. 32/3 Rank-and-filers have never considered him a ‘pork-chopper’, their term for a high-hat leader. |