bacon

noun

BAY-kuhn/ˈbeɪ.kən/

4 meanings of bacon

1
noununcountable
Pig meat from the sides, belly or back, treated with salt so it keeps.
Mom bought a big piece of bacon from the butcher.
The bean soup tastes better with a little bacon in it.
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2
noununcountable
Salted pig meat cut into thin, long pieces.
I had eggs and crispy bacon for breakfast.
Dad cooked six strips of bacon in the pan.
3
nounslangderogatoryuncountable
A rude name for the police or for spies.
Hide the bottles, the bacon just pulled up outside!
He did not want the bacon asking him questions.
Similarpolice, cops, fuzz, pigs
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4
nounslanguncountable
In cycling, skin that is scraped raw after a fall onto the road.
My bacon took two weeks to heal, and the bandage stuck to it every morning.
Some riders wear long sleeves on fast downhill rides so a fall won't leave them with bacon.
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From an old word for meat from the back and sides of a pig. It comes from the same root as the English word back.