pork
IPA: pˈɔrk
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) 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.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
verb
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).
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Examples of "pork" in Sentences
- The pork was roasted too much.
- She brought the cooked pork to the table.
- A side cut of pork is rolled and refrigerated.
- Furthermore, pork is not the name of the animal.
- Pork is by far the most common meat in the style.
- The pork tenderloin sandwich is a popular state food.
- Pork meat is the most common meat in the Bulgarian cuisine.
- In the other areas, beef and pork are the most used types of meat.
- The main livestock products in Panama are beef, veal, chicken, and pork.
- The most popular flavors in Taiwan are beef noodle soup and minced pork noodle.
- So they cut about 2 billion in pork from the funds to be used to continue warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan lol.
- I will admit 350 billion in pork is alot of cash ...... we'll have to see if these "pet projects", create more stability and jobs in various districts and states.
- A lot of what we call pork spending comes in what Congress calls earmarks -- it's friendlier sounding -- anonymous pet projects that bypass the usual review process.
- That bailout bill, as you now know, has quite a few extras, what they call pork barrel projects, more than $100 billion worth, including tax breaks for wooden arrows.
- President Bush today used his weekly radio address to slam congressional Democrats for weighing down war funding bills with what he calls pork and a timetable for withdrawal.
- Opposition lawmakers had said they won't let the bond bill pass unless Mr. Kan's cabinet first cancels what they call "pork barrel" policies in the budget, such as allowances for families with children.
- He recently came on this program, right here in THE SITUATION ROOM, and predicted that McCain's campaign is over because McCain voted for that financial rescue plan that was laden with what he described as pork barrel spending.
- The conservative commentator say he thinks it's over for McCain because he voted for the bailout legislation even though it included tens of billions of dollars with what they call pork barrel spending after promising he wouldn't do so.
- However, when McCain made a big deal of her rejection of the money for the project, which he called a pork-barrel project, Palin came under much criticism by Democrats and even a few Republicans, including Mike Elerding, who helped Palin in her running for governor in 2006.
- BLITZER: But there's still plenty of what they call pork barrel spending, the earmarks, the pet projects, the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars that go for certain projects that may not necessarily be all that useful, but a lawmaker wants them, a lobby wants them, and this is a reason why there's a lot of Americans who are losing faith with the Congress.