spareribs

[ spair-ribz ]

/ ˈspɛərˌrɪbz /

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noun (used with a plural verb)

a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.

a dish of this meat, usually baked, roasted, or barbecued with a pungent sauce.

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Origin of spareribs

1590–1600; transposed variant of earlier ribspare<Middle Low German ribbespēr rib cut; compare obsolete spare a cut, slice

The ribs inside this cut, when cut from underneath, are sold as spareribs.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3|Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The spareribs give the cabbage a very pleasing flavor and at the same time supply nourishment to the dish.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2|Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
He reflected a moment, studying the spareribs, which had just arrived.
The Salamander|Owen Johnson
Or look around to see if any of the party or the pack was rolling down over the spareribs of that ghastly skeleton.
Tenting To-night|Mary Roberts Rinehart

I's got a taste o' dese heah spareribs an' sausages, an' I ain't gwine take no medicine.
Contemporary One-Act Plays|Sir James M. Barrie