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porkbarrel

porkbarrel is the alternative spelling of pork barrel.

Meaning of pork barrel

Noun

pork barrel (plural pork barrels)

  1. (archaic) A barrel used to store pork.
  2. (US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
  3. (US, attributive, often) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
    • As the President said in his veto message, "It should also come as no surprise that over time the program has attained distinct flavor of pork barrel."1973 April 10, James T. Lynn, “Pork-Barrel Waste”, in The New York Times

Forms of porkbarrel

pluralporkbarrels

Questions about porkbarrel

What is porkbarrel the alternative spelling of?
Porkbarrel is the alternative spelling of pork barrel.

Words near porkbarrel in the dictionary

  1. pork-chop island
  2. pork-chop islands
  3. pork-knocker
  4. pork-knockers
  5. porkalicious
  6. porkbarrel
  7. porkbarreling
  8. porkbarrels
  9. porkburger
  10. porkburgers
  11. porkbush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porkbarrel (page history and authors); pork barrel (page history and authors). 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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