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bacon

noun
/ˈbeɪ.kən/

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”).

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. derived from *bakô✻
  3. derived from *bakō✻
  4. inherited from bacoun

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.
    • For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.

  2. 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. The police or spies.

    • Run! It's the bacon!
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Road rash.

    2. A saucisse.

    3. 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.

    4. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    5. A village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast.

The neighborhood

Derived

back bacon, bacon and cabbage, bacon and eggs, bacon beetle, baconburger, bacon butty, baconed, baconer, bacon explosion, bacon-faced, bacon fat, bacon-fed, bacon grease, bacon grill, bacon hair, baconize, baconless, baconlike, bacon rind, bacon roll, bacon square, bacontini, baconweed, bacony, bring home the bacon, Canadian bacon, carrot bacon, chawbacon, cottage bacon, eggs and bacon, facon, fakon, fry someone's bacon, good voice to beg bacon, Irish bacon, macon, peameal bacon, pig upon bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire, save someone's bacon · +11 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bacon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA