side of bacon
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2.7
- noun
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panceta
- Pancakes, side of bacon.
- a side of bacon and coffee
- a special side of bacon
Examples
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We'll need half a side of bacon... ...10 pounds of beef jerky, 20 pounds of horse grain.
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She always adds a side of bacon to her cheeseburger for extra flavor.
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Side of bacon and black coffee.
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All right, I'm going to have a side of two eggs, sunny side up, and a side of bacon, crisp.
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I'm gonna have a huge orange juice, three eggs, two sides of bacon... home fries, four pieces of toast, and then lunch!
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A side of bacon, beans, a coffee pot and a frying pan?
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There's a whole side of bacon hanging up in the woodshed.
Fiction book (1996) -
Get Frank a couple of poached eggs on an English muffin... ...with a side of bacon and a tall glass of fresh orange juice.
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Typically, I couldn't decide what I wanted, so I got a cup of oatmeal and a green pepper egg white omelet with cheddar cheese and a side of bacon.
Blog text (26) -
For breakfast, I ordered eggs, toast, and a side of bacon.
Synonyms
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1.0
Thin, salty slices of meat from a pig usually fried for breakfast
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3.4
A fatty cut of pork from the pig's belly that people cook, for example to make bacon
A strip of meat like bacon used for food
A large cut of meat or fish for cooking
One half of a butchered pig before it is cut into smaller pieces
A large half of an animal prepared and sold for eating
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'side' (a lengthwise half or large cut of an animal) combined with 'bacon' yields a large piece/half of the animal prepared as bacon. This noun+of+noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows predictable English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will infer the meaning.
Etymology
Side of bacon may come from old butcher practice: they used to hang the whole cured side of a pig to dry and smoke, and then slice that large piece for sale. That's why side of bacon means 'a large piece of bacon' today.