PORK BARREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pork barrel mean? 

• PORK BARREL (noun)
  The noun PORK BARREL has 1 sense:

1. a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

  Familiarity information: PORK BARREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORK BARREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

pork; pork barrel

Hypernyms ("pork barrel" is a kind of...):

appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)