bacon

/ˈbeɪkən/

/ˈbeɪkən/

Other forms: bacons

Bacon is a thin, salty meat product that's often served beside eggs at breakfast. Some people like their bacon cooked until it's crispy.

If you're a vegetarian, you might order a BLT and say, "Hold the bacon, please." Bacon comes from the belly or the sides of a pig, and it's typically swirled with fat, cured or smoked, and very flavorful. The word and the food have been around since at least the early 14th century, from a Proto-Germanic root, bakkon, or "back meat." Since the early 1900s, "bringing home the bacon" has been slang for earning a living.

Definitions of bacon

1. noun

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

   flitch, side of bacon

   salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork

   gammon

   hind portion of a side of bacon

   bacon strip

   a slice of bacon

   Canadian bacon

   from a boned strip of cured loin

   type of:

   cut of pork

   cut of meat from a hog or pig