pork

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/^[1]
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

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. The verb is from the black American form of poke.

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

2. (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

3. (US politics, slang, derogatory) 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.
4. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

• porcine

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:

     Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

Blend of pin +‎ fork

pork (plural porks)

1. (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

• porc, porke

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

• IPA^(key): /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.