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long pork

long pork noun: human flesh.

Noun

long pork (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Human flesh.
    • […] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.1896 October, Maxwell Gray, “An Old Song”, in Atalanta, volume X, number 1, London, E.C.: Marshall, Russell & Co., Ltd., page 11
    • Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.1929, Oscar Asche, his life, page 50

Examples of long pork in a sentence

  • They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369:
  • From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba.2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145:

Synonyms of long pork

Origin of long pork

Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.

Questions about long pork

What does long pork mean?
Long pork means human flesh.
How do you use long pork in a sentence?
They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".
What part of speech is long pork?
Long pork is a noun.

Words near long pork in the dictionary

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  2. long players
  3. Long Point
  4. long polling
  5. Long Pond
  6. long pork
  7. long position
  8. long positions
  9. long posterior ciliary arteries
  10. long posterior ciliary artery
  11. long pot

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