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noun
The meat of a pig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: hog meat, pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: meat, food, substance, material, stuff
noun
Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bacon, pig, swine, 5-O, Babylon, Big Blue Machine, Bill, boydem, constabulary, dibble, donut patrol, ducks and geese, ecilop, esclop, feds, filth, five-o, fuzz, garda, gardai, gendarmerie, heat, law, maaveh, monarch, Old Bill, piglice, plod, po-po, police, police department, police force, police service, polis, thin blue line, any plural synonym of police officer
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: board-games, chess, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To have sex with (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive, usually, vulgar
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
meat from a domestic hog or pig
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: porc
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: meat
Narrower terms: cochon de lait, suckling pig, salt pork, pigs' feet, pigs' knuckles
noun
a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pork barrel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appropriation
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century. US politics sense is related to pork barrel.
Blend of pin + fork.
Across languages
172 source translations are retained for this English entry.
