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pork

noun
🔊/pɔːk/
🔊/pɔːrk/
 [uncountable]
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  1. meat from a pig that has not been cured猪肉 (= preserved using salt or smoke)
    • roast pork烤猪肉
    • pork chops猪排
    • a leg of pork猪腿肉
    compare bacon, gammon, ham see also pulled porkTopics Fooda2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fresh
    • roast
    • salt
    • …
    … of pork
    • bit
    • piece
    • slice
    • …
    pork + noun
    • chop
    • pie
    • sausage
    • …
    phrases
    • sweet-and-sour pork
    See full entry
  2. (also pork barrel)
     (North American English, informal) local projects that are given a lot of government money in order to win votes; the money that is used 分肥项目，分肥拨款（议员等为争取选票而促使政府拨款给所属地区的发展项目）
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French porc, from Latin porcus ‘pig’.