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pork

/pɔːk//poɹk/

pork noun: the meat of a pig.

pork: the meat of a pig
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Noun (1)

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

  1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig.
    • The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
  2. (US, derogatory, slang) 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.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, collective, slang) Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.

Verb

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

  1. (slang, transitive, usually, vulgar) To have sex with (someone).
    • Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures
    • You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.1989 February 12, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Fun With The Electro-Lux And Other Masturbation Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9
    Synonyms:
    Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have

Noun (2)

pork (plural porks)

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

pork meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pork in Hindi

meat of a pig
सुअर का मांस suar kā māns, सुअर का गोश्त suar kā gośt, सुअर suar

pork in Tamil

பன்றி இறைச்சி, பன்றியிறைச்சி

pork in Marathi

डुकराचे मांस, डुक्करचे मांस

pork in Urdu

meat of a pig
سُؤَر کا گوشْت suar kā gośt, سُؤَر suar
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pork in Bengali
শূকরমাংস
pork in Telugu
పందిమాంసము pandimāṁsamu
pork in Malayalam
പന്നിയിറച്ചി panniyiṟacci
pork in Kannada
ಹಂದಿಬಾಡು, ಹಂದಿಯ ಮಾಂಸ
pork in Gujarati
ડુક્કરનું માંસ
pork in Odia
ଘୁଷୁରୀ ମାଂସ, ଶୂକର ମାଂସ
pork in Arabic
لَحْم الْخِنْزِير laḥm al-ḵinzīr
pork in Malay
daging babi
pork in Indonesian
daging babi, babi
pork in Thai
หมู mǔu, เนื้อหมู nʉ́ʉa mǔu
pork in Vietnamese
thịt heo, thịt lợn
pork in Myanmar
ဝက်သား waksa:

Examples of pork in a sentence

  • The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
  • Pork chops boiled with turnip greens make a mighty fine meal.
  • He manages to wrap every bit of pork for his district in the flag.

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Synonyms of pork

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Forms of pork

Noun
pluralporks
Verb
third-person singular presentporks
present participleporking
past participleporked
pastporked

Plural of pork: porks

Origin of pork

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.

Blend of pin + fork.

Words formed from pork

Phrases with pork

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Words that rhyme with pork

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Questions about pork

What does pork mean?
Pork means the meat of a pig.
What is pork in Hindi?
Pork in Hindi is सुअर का मांस (suar kā māns), सुअर का गोश्त (suar kā gośt), सुअर (suar). See Pork meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pork?
Pork can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pork?
Pork is pronounced /pɔːk/ (UK).
What is the plural of pork?
The plural of pork is porks.

Words near pork in the dictionary

  1. porites
  2. poritid
  3. poritids
  4. poritz
  5. Porjus
  6. pork
  7. pork and bean
  8. pork and beans
  9. Pork and Beans War
  10. pork barrel
  11. pork barrelling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pork (page history and authors); pork (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pork (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pork (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పందిమాంసము (Telugu) (page history and authors); പന്നിയിറച്ചി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); pork (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pork (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pork (Odia, 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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