pork barrel
(now, _, rare) A barrel used to store pork.
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(now, _, rare) A barrel used to store pork.
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(chiefly, US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
Similarly, earmarked, pork-barrel spendingis an invaluable tool for assembling bipartisan majorities for legislation because it helps members of Congress see the good a bill does for their constituents.
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(chiefly, US politics, often, attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
“Every piddly little bit of special pork barrel pleading contributes to a culture devoid of civic virtue and enables totalitarian consumerism, the most busted-ass ideology of which I can conceive”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case.
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(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads).
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A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.