pork up

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pork up

verb porks up · porking up · porked up

slang, of a person To grow fat.
transitive To increase the weight of (one or more pigs).
US, idiomatic To add spending, especially targeted spending, to legislation in order to get votes for it (see pork-barrel).

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@misc{pork_up_2026,
  title = {pork up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pork%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}