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pork

/poɹk/ noun B1
  1. The meat of a pig. (uncountable) · The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
  2. 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. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)
  3. Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution. (countable, slang, uncountable)

Plural porks

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But please don’t ask me to eat anything, especially boiled pork and greens.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 101 · C1
Boiled pork and greens are so unromantic when one is in affliction.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 101 · C1
“Well now, she shouldn’t have taken the brooch, Marilla, or told stories about it,” he admitted, mournfully surveying his plateful of unromantic pork and greens as if he, like Anne, thought it a food unsuited to crises of feeling, “but she’s such a little thing--such an interesting little thing.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 101 · C1

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