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# bacon

«bacon» in Mova's school dictionary: **salty meat from the back or sides of a pig, cut in thin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bacon — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bacon is salty meat from the back or sides of a pig, cut in thin slices and usually fried or grilled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#m1)

2) (informal, idiom) To bring home the bacon means to earn money for your family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#m2)

3) (informal, idiom) To save someone's bacon means to rescue them from trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#m3)

4) To want someone's bacon means to be after them, wanting to catch or harm them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: breakfast, BLT sandwiches, a full English breakfast; in religion lessons, Jews and Muslims usually do not eat pork, so not bacon; in idioms in stories and talk; also Francis Bacon, a famous English thinker (a name).

### examples

- Dad fried bacon and eggs for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x1)
- I'd like a bacon sandwich, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x2)
- Some people do not eat bacon because of their religion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x3)
- You saved my bacon by lending me a pen! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x4)
- Grandad worked hard to bring home the bacon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x5)
- Crispy bacon smells delicious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x6)
- But he wants my bacon! gree-ee-ee!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «some bacon», «a slice/rasher of bacon» (rasher is UK), not «a bacon». Halal and kosher food rules forbid pork.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bacon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.