Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.

    back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

  2. Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.

    (sometimes, uncountable, usually)Such meat from the belly specifically.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Thin slices of the above in long strips.

  4. (broadly, uncountable, usually)A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.

    beef bacon; vegetarian bacon

    Speck, Bauchspeck, Bacon

    беко́нbekón, ветчина́vetčiná

    беко́нbekón

  5. (derogatory, slang, uncountable, usually)The police or spies.

    Run! It's the bacon!

  6. (slang, uncountable, usually)Road rash.

  7. (archaic, uncountable, usually)A saucisse.

Examples

150 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't eat bacon.

    Том не їсть свинину.

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  2. I smell bacon.

    Я відчуваю запах бекону.

    deIch rieche Speck.

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  3. I smelled bacon.

    Я відчув запах сала.

    ruЯ почувствовал запах сала.

    deIch roch Speck.

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  4. Would you like bacon or sausage?

    ruХотите бекон или колбасу?

    deWollen Sie Speck oder Wurst?

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  5. Do you want some more bacon?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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cut of meat:
Русский
By meaning 1
cut of meat:
Deutsch
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cut of meat:

Origin

From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman ba

From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).

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Forms

plural: bacons
Singularbacon

uncountable

Synonyms

8 synonyms
cut of meat from a pig:hamA2porkB1
Close in meaning

Word family

49 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • bacon and eggs
  • eat bacon
  • smelled bacon
  • had bacon and
  • like bacon

See also

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