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Pork barrel   /pɔrk bˈærəl/   Listen
Pork barrel

noun
1.
A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.  Synonym: pork.





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"Pork barrel" Quotes from Famous Books



... bound to spade up round the pork barrel and try a few hills, anyway;" and sez he, dreamily, "We might raise a few string-beans and have 'em run up on the ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley


Words linked to "Pork barrel" :   appropriation


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