pork
Plural: porks
Noun
- The flesh of pigs, used as food.
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- The meat of a pig.
- 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.
- law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
Verb
- To have sex with (someone).
Examples
- He strategically played PORK, blocking a potential bingo line for his opponent.
- The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
porc, pork barrel, 5-O, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Babylon, Big Blue Machine, Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Old Bill, any plural synonym of police officer, bacon, ball, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, boydem, coit, coitize, constabulary, dibble, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, donut patrol, drill, ducks and geese, ecilop, eff, enjoy, esclop, expletive deleted, feague, feck, feds, fill, filth, five-o, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, fuzz, garda, gardai, gendarmerie, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, heat, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, law, lay, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, monarch, mount, nail, occupy, penetrate, pig, pigflesh, piglice, pigmeat, plod, plough, plug, po-po, poke, police, police department, police force, police service, polis, pork, pound, prig, pump, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swine, swineflesh, swinemeat, swive, take, tap, the other white meat, thin blue line, tup, wap
Scrabble Score: 10
pork: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpork: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pork: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary