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Porker

//ˈpɔːkə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.

    "Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers."

  2. 2
    a pig fattened to provide meat wordnet
  3. 3
    An obese person. derogatory, slang
  4. 4
    A lie. British, Cockney, slang
  5. 5
    A police officer. US, derogatory, slang

Etymology

From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.

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