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# bacon

noun (bacon — uncountable)

«bacon» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Bacon is salty meat from the back or sides of a pig, cut in thin slices and usually fried or grilled. [tree →](https://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bacon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bacon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bacon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bacon.html) on Mova free.