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cut of pork

Other forms: cuts of pork

Definitions of cut of pork
  1. noun
    cut of meat from a hog or pig
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    types:
    pork loin
    meat from a loin of pork
    gammon, ham, jambon
    meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
    picnic ham, picnic shoulder
    shoulder of a hog usually smoked
    bacon
    back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
    spareribs
    cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off
    flitch, side of bacon
    salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
    gammon
    hind portion of a side of bacon
    Virginia ham
    a lean hickory-smoked ham; has dark red meat
    prosciutto
    Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin
    bacon strip
    a slice of bacon
    Canadian bacon
    from a boned strip of cured loin
    type of:
    cut, cut of meat
    a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
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