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pork out (on something)
Inf. to overeat on something; to become fat as a pig from eating something. (A play on pig out.) I pork out on french fries whenever I get the chance. I wish I didn't pork out all the time.
See also: out

pork barrel  (American informal)
the action by a government of spending money in an area in order to make themselves more popular with the people there He was critical of these new, expensive job programs as just a form of pork barrel. (American informal)
See also: barrel


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The pig they had for the spit-roast Kate's 35th birthday house party in north London was a real porking point.
With the exception of metrosexual, pounds 35 tax bracket, hatchback cars have generally been porking up for years.
However, that didn't stop us porking up further, with two hefty slabs of gigolo-smooth cheesecake (pounds 2.
 
 
 
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