rasher
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈræʃər/
- UK
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- Annie, the cook, had baked a fresh loaf, and we ate it warm with rashers of bacon and lumps of good country butter.
- a rasher of bacon
- rashers and eggs
- breakfast with rashers
Examples
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He'd be home by noon, he said, and he'd have rashers and eggs and tea.
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I only came in for rashers, Mrs. O'Riordan.
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I want a rasher of bacon.
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-Half a dozen rashers, please.
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And some rashers and some cheese.
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Just the rashers, please, Mrs. O'Riordan.
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She usually comes into the shop on Sunday morning for her rashers.
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I opened the little smoke window for her as she laid rashers in the pan, stirring them with the fork as they cooked, the smell of bacon passing across the expanse.
Fiction book (2001) -
I enjoyed a crispy rasher of bacon with my eggs this morning.
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He ordered a fry-up that included two rashers of rasher alongside toast.
Synonyms
162
1.0
Meat from a pig's back leg usually cured and eaten hot or cold
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rasher for a thin slice of bacon comes from an old word meaning a 'slice' or 'cut', so a rasher is literally one thin 'slice' of meat you fry and eat at breakfast.