crackling
(cookery, in the singular, _, in, _, Britain) The crispy rind of roast pork.
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there's a moldering worm-eaten old catcher's mitt crackling in the sun by the side of the road I can look at whenever I want The Robert F Kennedy Jr. Experience. it's at the bottom of a hill, too, so trucks downshifti…
Working on uploading some sets to my Youtube channel, here's one from early January for your listening pleasure! Crackling in the beginning is due to my old timecode vinyls -_-
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(cookery, in the singular, _, in, _, Britain) The crispy rind of roast pork.
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(cookery, countable) A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
the bangs and cracklings of fireworks
“there's a moldering worm-eaten old catcher's mitt crackling in the sun by the side of the road I can look at whenever I want The Robert F Kennedy Jr. Experience. it's at the bottom of a hill, too, so trucks downshifting can do the voice”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Working on uploading some sets to my Youtube channel, here's one from early January for your listening pleasure! Crackling in the beginning is due to my old timecode vinyls -_-”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(cookery, often, in the plural, US) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens.
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