Pork
//pɔːk// noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The meat of a pig. uncountable
"The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays."
- 2 A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- 3 meat from a domestic hog or pig wordnet
- 4 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. US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
- 5 a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents wordnet
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- 6 law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution Multicultural-London-English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To have sex with (someone). slang, transitive, usually, vulgar
"Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!"
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More examples"The GOP accused the Democrats of pork barrel politics."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Blend of pin + fork.
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