bacon
Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
Other meanings
Such meat from the belly specifically.
Thin slices of the above in long strips.
A kind of
- cut of pork
Kinds of bacon
- side of bacon
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "bacoun" (meat from the back and sides of a pig).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bacon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.