pork belly

noun

1. a side of fresh pork.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pork belly¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Don’t miss some returning favorites, such as the barbacoa tamal de res, in which the beef is pleasantly tender, or the braised pork belly adobo, one of the heartier dishes at the festival.

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They hired a PhD student from the statistics department at the University of California at Berkeley to help them, but he quit after they asked him to study the market for pork belly futures.

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Roast pork belly redolent and tender as Castilian suckling pig.

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BBC Food has a recipe made with sweet and spicy pork belly and chilli sauce.

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You may unfortunately remember the era through the parts that quickly calcified into cliché: $14 cocktails in Mason jars, the monoculture of pork belly, a nationwide proliferation of flaccid fried green tomatoes.

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