- meat from the back or sides of a pig that has been cured (= preserved using salt or smoke), usually served in thin slices
- a rasher of bacon
- bacon and eggs
- smoked/unsmoked bacon
Extra ExamplesTopics Foodb1- Fry the bacon until crisp.
- I'll have two rashers of bacon and a fried egg.
- A whole side of bacon was hanging from a hook on the ceiling.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lean
- streaky
- back
- …
- bit
- piece
- rasher
- …
- cook
- fry
- grill
- …
- fat
- grease
- rind
- …
- bacon, lettuce and tomato
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from a Germanic word meaning ‘ham, flitch’; related to back.
Idioms
See bacon in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybring home the bacon
- (informal) to be successful at something; to earn money for your family to live on
- His friends had all gone to college or were bringing home the bacon.
save somebody’s bacon/neck
- (informal) to rescue somebody from a very difficult situation
- He's out to save his own political neck.
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