pork
/pɔːk
/noun [mass noun]
1The flesh of a pig used as food, especially when uncured: [as modifier]: pork chops...
- Beef, mutton, pork and venison were common meats, and communities close to the coast could expect to widen their diets with fish and shellfish.
- While all of these various types of pork chops are tender, some are more so than others.
- A handsome pork chop with fennel purée is five minutes past being a winner.
2 short for pork barrel.It's funny how your radicalism stops short when it's your own federal pork on the line, isn't it?...
- Taxes get wasted of a lot of foolish projects, government pork and corporate welfare.
- Unless it's pork, of course, in which case it applies only to states and districts that vote Republican.
verb
1 [with object] vulgar slang, chiefly US (Of a man) have sexual intercourse with.
2 [no object] (pork out) informal Gorge oneself with food: we porked out on cookies and pies...
- Johanna and I porked out on tasty Japanese food.
- But I suspect that obese kids would respond by finding other foods to pork out on.
- He's lost a bit of weight (Skinner ‘always porks out’ towards the end of making an album, apparently) and, clutching a bottle of water in his snappy designer sportswear, might almost be at the gym.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French porc, from Latin porcus 'pig'.
Rhymes
- Oerter, Al
- oesophagal
- oesophageal
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- oesophagitis
- oesophagogastric
- oesophagopathy
- oesophagoscope
- oesophagoscopy
- oesophagospasm
- oesophagostomy
- oesophagotomy
- oesophagus
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