bacon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.

   They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.

2. 2
   noun

   Thin slices of the above in long strips.

   As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.

3. 3
   noun

   The police or spies.

   Run! It's the bacon!

4. 4
   name

   A surname.

   The bill, which lawmakers approved in a 211-206 vote, now moves to the Republican-led Senate for consideration. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted with Democrats Thursday against the measure.

5. 5
   noun

   back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked

6. 6
   noun

   Road rash.

7. 7
   noun

   A saucisse.

8. 8
   name

   A number of places in the United States:

Etymology

From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”). Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache f (“wild sow”), Alemannic German Bache m (“bacon”). (police): Extension of pig (“police”).