bacon

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All that's left to save our bacon is the pricing mechanism, but the price mechanism isn't specified, and Yves notes that "the current draft allows them to pay up to the price at which the assets were initially booked".

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

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  • The eggs and the bacon were absolutely amazing (perfectly cooked) and the freshly squeezed orange juice was nice and moderately sized for $4.95. —  The Mad Professah Lectures
  • P.S. -- the only people who could have saved your bacon are the ones you refuse to listen to at your management meetings -- or even neglected to invite. —  Inside Music Media
  • What really fries my bacon is the simplicity of the proposal without any apparent insight into farming or what farming provides the planet.
  • While Gammon expects that entrees like the bacon-wrapped Canadian bacon or the Bacturduckencon (a bacon-stuffed chicken in a duck in a turkey encased in bacon) will become signature dishes, he emphasizes that bacon is not the only foodstuff on the menu. —  Rev. BigDumbChimp
  • On March 23, Van Susteren discussed a protest in Orlando and noted that protestors held signs that read, "Repeal the pork or our bacon is cooked" and, "Obama lied, liberty died." —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
 

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

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  1. Early modern English also bakon, baken, from Middle English bacon, bacoun, bakoun, from Old French bacon = Provencal bacon, from Middle Latin baco(n-), bacon, side of bacon, shoulder, ham, also a swine, from Old High German bahho, bacho, Middle High German bache, side of bacon, ham, German bache, a wild sow (obsolete or dial., a ham), = Middle Dutch bake, bacon, ham, a swine, from Old High German *bah, etc., = Anglo-Saxon bæc, Englishback: see back.
 

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/ˈbeɪkən/
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