Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
...bacon and eggs.
...smoked streaky bacon.
2.
See bring home the bacon
3.
See bring home the bacon
4.
See to save someone's bacon
bacon in British English
(ˈbeɪkən)
noun
1.
meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and usually smoked
2. bring home the bacon
3. save someone's bacon
Word origin
C12: from Old French bacon, from Old High German bahho; related to Old Saxon baco; see back1
Bacon in British English
(ˈbeɪkən)
noun
1.
Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. 1561–1626, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist; described the inductive method of reasoning: his works include Essays (1625), The Advancement of Learning (1605), and Novum Organum (1620)
2.
Francis. 1909–92, British painter, born in Dublin, noted for his distorted, richly coloured human figures, dogs, and carcasses
3.
Roger. ?1214–92, English Franciscan monk, scholar, and scientist: stressed the importance of experiment, demonstrated that air is required for combustion, and first used lenses to correct vision. His Opus Majus (1266) is a compendium of all the sciences of his age
the outer edge of a slice of bacon , corresponding to the skin of the pig
bacon beetle
any beetle of the family Dermestidae, whose members are destructive at both larval and adult stages to a wide range of stored organic materials such as wool , fur , feathers , and meat. They include the bacon ( or larder ), cabinet , carpet , leather , and museum beetles
bacon-slicer
a machine for cutting bacon into slices
streaky bacon
Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
Canadian bacon
cured , smoked pork taken from the loin in a boneless strip and having a hamlike flavor
bacon-and-eggs
any of various creeping leguminous Eurasian plants of the genus Lotus , esp L . corniculatus , with red-tipped yellow flowers and seed pods resembling the claws of a bird
save someone's bacon
to get someone out of a dangerous or difficult situation
bring home the bacon
If you bring home the bacon , you achieve what you needed to achieve.
to save someone's bacon
If someone or something saves your bacon , they get you out of a dangerous or difficult situation.