pork up

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Verb

pork up (third-person singular simple present porks up, present participle porking up, simple past and past participle porked up)

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