baconnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbeɪ.kən/us/ˈbeɪ.kən/B1 meat from the back or sides of a pig, often eaten fried in thin slices:
a bacon sandwich
a slice/rasher of bacon
bacon and eggs
More examples
- This bacon is too salty for me.
- The meat produced from a pig is called pork, bacon or ham.
- As it was a cold morning, she stoked up on bacon, eggs and beans on toast.
- This bacon smells a bit funny - do you think it's gone off?
- Everyone I know likes the smell of bacon - even Mike does and he's a vegetarian.
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Kinds of meat
- biltong
- broiler
- capon
- chicken
- dark meat
- fryer
- gammon
- guinea fowl
- ham
- meat
- Parma ham
- partridge
- pastrami
- pheasant
- pork
- squab
- trotter
- turkey
- veal
- venison
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