bacon

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We had potato soup and the house salad at Hops (I had to pick out little bits of bacon from the soup, but it was really good!).

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  1. noun The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

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  • At least the bacon was already prepared, she thought, bending and retrieving another skillet from the cabinet. —  Cinderella At The Ball
  • And a ham and ten pounds of bacon from the first hog he killed in November. —  Cold Mountain
  • We had potato soup and the house salad at Hops (I had to pick out little bits of bacon from the soup, but it was really good!). —  carinosa34 Diary Entry
  • Her dinner this evening was oatmeal soaked in bacon grease. —  grouse Diary Entry
  • In other news, a lot of bacon is happening here on April 4, including but not limited to this and this. —  senorcoconut Diary Entry
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.

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/ (bāˈkən)/
ahd pronounces "bacon"
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