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bacon

/ˈbeɪ.kən/

bacon noun: cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.

bacon: cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig
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Noun

bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)

  1. (usually) Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
    • They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.2006, Joanna Pruess, Seduced by Bacon, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 93
    • It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.2008, Christopher Paolini, “To Walk the Land Alone”, in Brisingr, page 73
    1. (sometimes, usually) Such meat from the belly specifically.
  2. (usually) Thin slices of the above in long strips.
    • As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.2014 September 11, Pam Grout, “Really? 10 unexpected cruise activities”, in CNN
  3. (broadly, usually) A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.
    • beef bacon; vegetarian bacon
  4. (derogatory, slang, usually) The police or spies.
    • Run! It's the bacon!
  5. (slang, usually) Road rash.
  6. (archaic, usually) A saucisse.

Proper noun capitalized: Bacon

Bacon

  1. A surname.
    • The bill, which lawmakers approved in a 211-206 vote, now moves to the Republican-led Senate for consideration. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted with Democrats Thursday against the measure.2025 May 8, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, “House passes GOP-led bill to rename Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America”, in CNN
  2. An unincorporated community in Orange County, Indiana.
  3. An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri.
  4. A township in Vernon County, Missouri.
  5. An unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio.
  6. A village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast.

bacon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

bacon in Hindi

cut of meat
बेकन bekan

bacon in Tamil

பன்றி இறைச்சி

bacon in Marathi

cut of meat
बेकन bekan
thin slice of pork
बेकन bekan

bacon in Urdu

cut of meat
بیکَن bekan
More languagesFewer languages
bacon in Bengali
বেকন bekon
bacon in Telugu
బేకన్
bacon in Malayalam
ബേക്കൺ, ബേക്കണി
bacon in Kannada
ಬೇಕನ್
bacon in Punjabi
ਬੇਕਨ bekan, ਸੂਰ ਦਾ ਮਾਸ sūr dā mās
bacon in Gujarati
બેકન
bacon in Odia
ବେକନ, ବେକନ୍, ବେକେନ୍
bacon in Sinhala
බේකන් bēkan
bacon in Nepali
बेकन
bacon in Arabic
بَاكُون bākūn, بَيْكُون baykūn
bacon in Malay
bakon, dendeng babi
bacon in Indonesian
daging babi asap, daging asap, bakon
bacon in Thai
เบคอน bee-kɔ̂n
bacon in Vietnamese
thịt muối, thịt lợn muối xông khói
bacon in Myanmar
ဘေကွန် bhe-kwan

Examples of bacon in a sentence

  • For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.2009 March 31, Laura Casey, “Piggin' out on bacon at S.F.'s BaconCamp”, in San Jose Mercury News, retrieved 19 Oct 2010:
  • Bacon is something that everybody is familiar with and most people grew up eating.2009 August 12, Lisa Abraham, “Bacon comes home - Old favorite tastes even better when you do the curing yourself”, in Akron Beacon...

All 40 example sentences with bacon

Synonyms of bacon

Forms of bacon

pluralbacons

Plural of bacon: bacons

Origin of bacon

From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”). Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache f (“wild sow”), Alemannic German Bache m (“bacon”). (police): Extension of pig (“police”).

* As an English and French surname, from the noun bacon. * Also as an English, French, and Norman surname, from the Germanic personal name *Bahho, from Proto-Germanic *bēganą (“to fight”).

Words formed from bacon

Phrases with bacon

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Words that rhyme with bacon

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Questions about bacon

What does bacon mean?
Bacon means cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
What is bacon in Hindi?
Bacon in Hindi is बेकन (bekan). See Bacon meaning in Hindi.
How do you use bacon in a sentence?
For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.
What part of speech is bacon?
Bacon can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bacon?
Bacon is pronounced /ˈbeɪ.kən/.
What is the plural of bacon?
The plural of bacon is bacons.

Words near bacon in the dictionary

  1. bacogenin
  2. bacogenins
  3. Bacolod
  4. Bacolod-Kalawi
  5. Bacolor
  6. bacon
  7. bacon and cabbage
  8. bacon and eggs
  9. bacon beetle
  10. bacon beetles
  11. bacon butties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacon (page history and authors); Bacon (page history and authors); bacon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bacon (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bacon (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bacon (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bacon (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bacon (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bacon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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