pork up
pork up · porks up · porked up · porking up
To grow fatTo grow fat.
» Tom has kinda porked up recently.
Что-то Том раскабанел в последнее время. — Ooneykcall
Ooneykcall · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(slang)To grow fat.
(transitive)To increase the weight of (one or more pigs).
(US, idiomatic)To add spending, especially targeted spending, to legislation in order to get votes for it (see pork-barrel).
Examples
1 sentencesTom has kinda porked up recently.
ruЧто-то Том раскабанел в последнее время. — Ooneykcall
Forms
porks up, porking up, porked up, porked up| Base form | pork up · to pork up |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | porks up |
| Present participle | porking up |
| Past simple | porked up |
| Past participle | porked up |
irregular
Phrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.