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pork

  • noun
  • /pɔːk/

The meat of a pig.

Other meanings

  1. Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.

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

A kind of

  • meat

Kinds of pork

  • suckling pig
  • salt pork
  • pigs' feet

Word history

From Latin "porcus" (domestic hog, pig).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “pork” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.