bacon

Speech parts

1. bacon - Noun

2. Bacon - Proper noun

Meaning

The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ham pork rasher Francis Bacon Roger Bacon 1st Baron Verulam Sir Francis Bacon pancetta gammon living pig tenderloin pay meat maintenance
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Antonyms

peterman perpetrator robber burglar rowdy vegan
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Hypernyms

cut of pork

Hyponyms

gammon flitch Canadian bacon side of bacon bacon strip

Related terms

back

Phrases with the word

bring home the bacon save someone's bacon pull someone's bacon out of the fire fry someone's bacon Irish bacon Bacon number

Anagrams

banco Bonac coban

Examples

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. Clive Barker

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. Lucian Freud

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. Bernard Bailyn

Do not let the cat watch over the bacon. Persian Proverb

Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon. Russian Proverb

When you can't get meat, chickens and bacon are good. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

bacn bacne bacogenin bacon and breakfast bowl bacon and breakfast burrito bacon and breakfast casserole