Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fattened young pig.
  • noun Derogatory A fat person.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hog; a pig; especially, one fatted for killing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A hog.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
  • noun slang, pejorative An obese person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a pig fattened to provide meat

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Examples

  • September 28th, 2009 6: 25 pm ET the porker is a corker

    Beat 360° 9/28/09 2009

  • I presumeground porker is usable by shelters and food banks, like ground venison.

    Shoot Wild Pigs, Please Dave Hurteau 2008

  • I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa?

    The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com 2002

  • So . . . the third-ranking Republican leader in the Senate wants to be known as a porker, an earmarker, and Senator Pothole … He declared himself against individualism, against libertarianism, against “this whole idea of personal autonomy, ... this idea that people should be left alone.”

    A New Sound in the Echo Chamber 2006

  • So . . . the third-ranking Republican leader in the Senate wants to be known as a porker, an earmarker, and Senator Pothole … He declared himself against individualism, against libertarianism, against “this whole idea of personal autonomy, ... this idea that people should be left alone.”

    Bush as a Keynesian and the Line Item Veto 2006

  • The natives are very fond of pork indeed, and nearly every household boasts of at least one porker, which is allowed the entire run of the house and looked upon almost as "one of the family."

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • By "porker", I refer to its traditional meaning of "fattened young pig" and not to its colloquial use for corpulent persons, although it's always fun to be provocative.

    Fat porkers get sacrificed 2010

  • By "porker", I refer to its traditional meaning of "fattened young pig" and not to its colloquial use for corpulent persons, although it's always fun to be provocative.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local marialoving13 2010

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