porkchop

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A form of pork chop — A loin cut taken perpendicular to the spine of the pig, usually a rib or part of a vertebra.

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nounporkchop (plural porkchops)

plural porkchops

  1. alternativeattributiveAlternative form of pork chop.

    A porkchop-shaped camping area is set along the south cove of 12-mile Sebec Lake.

    2004, Robert W. Sehlinger, Frommer’s Best RV and Tent Campgrounds in the U.S.A., 2nd edition, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405
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    I sat on a parked car's hoot watching, eating a porkchop sandwich I'd bought at a nearby food booth.

    1972 December, Cary S Baker, “The New Chicago Street Blues”, in Blues Unlimited, number 97, page 16

    “Anyway, we’re sitting down to dinner at his house, and there’s this plate of porkchops on the table. The only thing was—and I didn’t know it till it happened, it sort of took me back—you only got a porkchop if you worked. / “That was the rule. The porkchops went to the workers, nobody else. Didn’t matter who you were, how old you were. Tommy didn’t get a porkchop, I didn’t get a porkchop. I’ve always remembered that.”

    1996, Geoffrey Douglas, The Game of Their Lives, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 10

Synonyms & antonyms

nounchop cut from a hog

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porkchop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porkchop

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Chicago

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