Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A slice from the ribs of a pig.

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Examples

  • He was still sucking on a pork-chop bone in his high chair.

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  • The local Veterans of Foreign Wars and volunteer fire departments schedule pork-chop dinners and pancake breakfasts.

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  • He was a thin man with a red turtleneck, pork-chop sideburns, and thick dark hair that made his head look like a blossomed cranberry bush.

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  • May 21, 2009 at 3:48 am ya know, its betterer than tha pork-chop they tied around my neck to get the dogs to play wit meh.

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  • The inability to cook a pork-chop at home came up in conversation with some friends a few nights ago...

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  • His hair was thick and gray; he was clean-shaven but for luxuriant, gray pork-chop side whiskers.

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  • The candidate walked to the front of the pork-chop line as well.

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  • Oh yes, I did eat a pork-chop on a stick and I saw the butter cow.

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  • He called for another pork-chop and potatoes, then for pickled salmon; then he thought he would try a devilled turkey-wing.

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  • She lifted the cover: there was such a pork-chop as Simpson never served, with a dish of mashed potatoes that would have formed at least six portions in our degenerate days in Rupert Street.

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