pork n.
1. in senses of flesh.
(a) a generic term for a woman or women viewed as sex objects.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | DSUE (1984) 912/1: C.18–early 20. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 128: Time he’d fired seven rounds / He had pork a-plenty. | |
| USA Confidential 133: Some servicemen drift around, but most of the farmers prefer the pork in smaller Indiana towns. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lex. of Cadet Lang. 275: poking the pork fucking a woman. |
(b) (also purple pork, spicy pork roll) the penis.
| ‘The Roll Of Pork, And Force-Meat Balls’ in Knowing Chaunter 26: Then quick on the sofa she lay, / And then took his pork in her hand. | |
| Doom Pussy 150: We wrote a new song entitled ‘Ryan’s Pork Is Hanging Out.’. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Stand (1990) 1204: His sheepskin jacket with its two buttons on the breast pockets: smiley-smile and how’s your pork? | |
| Lowspeak. | |
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 280: usage: ‘Me and my pork are off to the Bin, the ‘old fella’s’ sure raging to go!’. | |
| Get Your Cock Out 62: He could feel his purple pork trying to squeeze out of his leathers. [Ibid.] 89: Gerry Enchilada’s conviction that any woman who wouldn’t suck on his spicy pork roll seconds after meeting him was a lesbian. | |
| Night Gardener 267: Has someone been puttin their pork inside you? |
(c) (US tramp, also dead pork) a corpse.
| ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 459: Pork, A corpse. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 149: Pork.– A corpse. | |
| Cool Customer 196: If you are dead pork when I get you to the ranch it’s not my fault. | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 813: pork – A corpse. | |
| Lowspeak. |
(d) the vagina.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Man-of-Words in the West Indies 72: My sister had a penny pork* [...] *A penny’s worth of pork, also sl. for female genitalia. |
(e) (UK black) a white person.
| (con. 1981) East of Acre Lane 96: When de stupid black bwai gets his piece of pork dey say dat black girl are too facety. |
2. in senses of monetary ‘fat’.
(a) (US) federal funds obtained for particular areas or individuals on the basis of political patronage.
| Congressional Record 28 Feb. 2131/1: St. Louis is going to have some of the ‘pork’ indirectly; but it will not do any good [DA]. | |
| N.Y. Times 12 May n.p.: Take your tribute but buy national defense with it, don’t waste it in ‘pork’ and ‘pie’ and Populist lunacies! [DA]. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
 | News-Herald 19 July 4/3: That difference of more than $54,000,000 includes a lot of pork for individual Senators [DA]. | |
| USA Confidential 240: The Democratic majority railroaded the appropriation through. But there have been no handouts to his in-laws, no ‘pork’ for Independence. | |
| State of the Union Address 27 Jan.: We can carve out the boondoggles and pork [R]. | |
| NYTimes.com [comments] 3 Jan. [Internet[ The essence of this bill doesn’t seem pork-laden at all [...] This bill had too much pork. I rather have a bill with less frivolous spending. [...] Whatever pork therre might be in the bill, I can not help to feel deep bitterness towards the government. |
(b) (US black) money.
| Und. Speaks n.p.: On the pork, without any funds; destitute. | |
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 26 Oct. 22: [She] has cut (or is about to cut) a large slice of pork in running around the Turf restaurant. | |
| Listening to America 60: They’re sayin’, ‘Screw you, Daddy,’ all the time they’re livin’ on his pork. |
3. a fool.
| (con. 1960s) Wanderers 200: Buddy was a real sap and a pork to blow it all on the first roll. |
4. (orig. US, also pork holster) the police; also as derog. term of address [play on pig n. (2a)].
| Snitch Jacket 16: Why did the pork stop you in the first place? | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Ringer [ebook] n.p.: I can almost smell the bacon sizzling as I bomb it down the stairs and out the close door. There’s a definite whiff of pork in the air, with sirens and blue lights going at full tilt. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] ‘He’ll get his! Just like these pork holsters gonna get theirs!’. | |
| Swollen Red Sun 95: ‘My lawyer’s gonna sure the shit outta you, pork’. | |
| Swollen Red Sun 150: ‘You might have one pork under your thumb, but what about them other two?’. |
5. see porky n. (2)
In compounds
(US) a political ‘slush’ fund; also as v.; also as adj., corrupt.
| Rough Riders 680: The ‘pork-barrel’ Senators and Congressmen felt for this body an instinctive, and perhaps from their standpoint a natural, hostility. | |
| Western News (Stevensville, MT) 24 June 2/2: [headline] Montana and the Pork Barrel. | |
| Westminster Gaz. 1 June 2/1: The Democratic Party[’s] representatives [...] have preferred to take for their own constituencies whatever could be got out of the Congressional ‘pork barrel’. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 10 July 2/2: A law fixing a half mill levy for road-building so as to eliminate the ‘pork barrel’ system of legislation. | |
| N.Y. Eve. Post 12 May n.p.: The River and Harbor bill is the pork barrel par excellence, and the rivers and harbors are manipulated by Federal machinery and not by State machinery [DA]. | |
| Columbia Eve. Missourian (MO) 22 July 4/2: [headline] Pork Barrel Lid Tightened. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
| Time 30 May 12/2: The pork barrel rumbled merrily about the Senate chamber, flattening out economic forces before it [DA]. | |
| Reader’s Digest Jan. 96/2: The Army Civil Functions appropriation bill—once known as the Rivers and Harbors bill and still called the ‘pork barrel’ bill—this year provided for 275 projects [DA]. | |
| Robert Pierpont 11 Jan. [CBS-TV] Hit list of pork-barrel items that have to be eliminated. | |
| You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 60: Before you kin piss an’ say porky you’ll be wishin’ you’d pork-barreled with me. | |
| Brush-Off (1998) 105: A policy crisis, accusations of pork barrelling, being caught misleading parliament. | |
| ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 258: He punched out pork-barrel politicos. | |
| Silver [ebook] The old equation: law + order + pork barrelling = votes. |
see separate entries.
(US) the penis.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. |
(US) the penis.
| After Hours 169: Maybe he just had a heavy pork-leg. |
one who masturbates.
| Choirboys (1976) 237: He’s one a these pissy pork pullers. Takes a leak and beats off. |
the penis.
| letter 4 Aug. in Leader (2000) 239–40: Glad you liked pork sword; I do [...] it’s a genuine cant term for penis, one he heard in the Navy. | |
| letter 4 Nov. in Leader (2000) 491: The successive application of tears and pork sword had brought hubby right back into the picture again. | |
| Dimboola (2000) 95: mutton: They don’t call me Mutton Gun for nothing. bayonet: And me, Bayonet. mutton: Master of the pork sword. | |
| G’DAY 87: The bloke wears a frenchie [...] on his old feller or pork sword. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 87/2: pork sword penis. | |
| Llama Parlour 171: So, are we gonna play with the pork sword or what? | |
| Urban Grimshaw 17: Nor shall my Pork Sword sleep in my hand. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 17 Oct. 🌐 The boykie to take the rind off their pork swords was the young shepherd lad, David. | |
| Rude Awakening 142: The Old Pork Sword, as Charlie affectionately called it when drunk, felt unjustly punished and stared up at him resentfully as he packed it away in his underpants. |
In phrases
phr. of acceptance, resignation.
| Era (London) 4 June 4/2: It was all pork and greens, and i seed the game was up. | |
| On the Wilder Shores of Love [ebook] The long introduction to the new edition I did [...] has vanished [...] Oh well, it’s all pork and greens as HW [Harriette Wilson] would have said. |
the vagina.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 169: Koiros, m. The female pudendum; ‘a bit of pork’. |
see sense 1c above.
to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
(Aus.) to put on weight.
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 114: ‘Could you ask her to go on a run with you? She’s porking up a bit’. |
1. to masturbate.
| Queens’ Vernacular 115: to masturbate [...] flog the [...] pork. | |
| ‘Filthy F**ckers #2’ Rev. on Excalibur Films 🌐 Not just for women...it will have you guys pounding your pork! |
2. to have sexual intercourse (with).
| (con. 1972) What It Was 205: He’d never relax with Gregorio pounding his pork into some trick in the same room. |
(orig. US) to have sexual intercourse, hetero- or male homosexual.
| Onion Field 98: That’s what the Roman broad said to the big gladiator dude when he poured her the pork in that orgy movie. | |
| Silent Terror 45: ‘Act gentlemanly with the lady of your choice [...] and pour her the pork till the hogs holler for hell’. | |
| in Crime Time mag. No. 28 Oct. 🌐 Parenthetically, he [i.e. Robert Kennedy] did not play bury the brisket and pour the pork with Marilyn Monroe. He did not dip the schnitzel with her. | |
| ‘Hollywood Fuck Pad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 228: The killer wants butthole [...] They’re pouring the pork. The killer loops back for lubricant. | |
| Hilliker Curse 13: My dad told me that he poured Rita [Hayworth] the pork. | |
| Covert Loves 412: There’s one girl that I pour the pork to every now and then. | |
| Widespread Panic 56: Jimmy split to find Rock Hudson a wife he’d never pour the pork to. |
to masturbate lit. or fig.
| Q&A 27: Look at that Richie Schoenbaum [...] He’s making money, and I’m over here pullin’ my pork’. |
see sense 1b above.
see sense 1b above.
(Aus.) to swagger.
| ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 30: He walked his pork on Collins like a hero off the stage. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see separate entries.
see separate entries.
see fritz n.1
a stupid, thuggish person.
| Good Old Days 176: The cap told the gov that it was a nice friendly exercise in wrist-slappin’ between friends [...] and any porkhead that saw anything resemblin’ prize fightin’ that evenin' had him cheated for optical range. | |
| White Talk Black Talk 237: They call us ‘porkhead’ – well, only me ’cos the other [white] girls go, ‘No I’m not’. | |
| Awaydays 35: An Untouchable whose misfortune it has been to be squired by a whole succession of over-muscled porkheads. |
In phrases
see separate entry.
(US) an excess, bad odds; esp. a bargain that is not as good as it initially appears.
| Flash (NY) 4 Sept. n.p.: He surveyed his foes and ‘calkilated’ rthat four to one was ‘too much pork for a shilling’. He seized a chair, and the way [...] he used it, showed he had been in a muss before. | |
| Knickerbocker (NY) Sept. 325: Few persons are aware [...] that the current phrase, ‘Too much Pork for a Shilling,’ had its origin in the experience of one who for a quarter of a century has been one of our best - known literary celebrités. |