noun
pork
pawk
noun
1
Meat from a pig.
"We had roast pork with apple sauce for dinner."
2
Government spending or funding secured by a politician mainly to benefit their own district, rather than the country as a whole.
"Critics called the bridge project pure pork."
How to Use Pork
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMeat from pigs, or, informally in US politics, wasteful spending pushed through to benefit a politician's own area.
Common pairings
pork chop
pork belly
pork barrel spending
Word Forms
porked past tense, porks plural, porks plural, porks singular
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Etymology
From Old French porc, ultimately from Latin porcus ("pig, hog"). The political sense comes from the older term "pork barrel".