bacon
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪkən/
:
tocino
- "Don't forget to bring home the bacon."
- replaced by bacon
Enjoy your hot dogs and bacon and you're welcome.
- Enjoy your hot dogs and bacon and you're welcome.
- I'll give him a fried hot dog with bacon wrapped fried hot dog.
- But this is how I cook my bacon just like this.
- So less red meat, you know, less bacon, less dairy.
- So I walk in to the bacon and sausage smelling house.
Examples
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OK, so we have some eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes and fruit.
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I love the smell of bacon in the morning.
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Why do they always forget my bacon?
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- Here are your bacon and eggs.
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Could I have a bacon double cheeseburger?
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There was no smell of bacon when she awoke this Saturday morning.
Fiction book (1991) -
You'll want some eggs and bacon, and that will happen at lunch too.
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You know, some eggs, some bacon, maybe a little chorizo.
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"Check out that sizzling bacon."
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In the morning, the hosts wake early to cook bacon in the lodge kitchen.
Synonyms
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A lean round slice of cured pork loin that people eat with eggs
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A large salted piece of pork from a pig's side, often smoked and sliced
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A thin slice of bacon cooked until it is crisp and eaten as food
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Thin slices of pork cooked until they are firm and crunchy
A strip of meat like bacon used for food
Idioms
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Save someone from a difficult situation at the last moment
Compounds
A sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato that often has mayonnaise
How Salty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bacon comes from an old German word that meant back ('back' of the pig). It originally named the meat from the pig's back, so today bacon still means the thin, salty slices of pork we fry for breakfast.