pork

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   meat from a domestic hog or pig

   The chef featured a pork tenderloin as the dinner special.

2. 2
   noun

   The meat of a pig.

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

3. 3
   verb

   To have sex with (someone).

   Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

4. 4
   noun

   a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

7. 7
   noun

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

Etymology

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.