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Definition of bring home the bacon
bring home the bacon
verb
- to earn an income.
I will bring home the bacon when I start working at the market.
- See more words with the same meaning: to make money.
Last edited on Apr 12 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to make money': | |
| Definitions include: of money, to gather. | |
| Definitions include: to earn, usually money. | |
| Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.) | |
| Definitions include: displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: to earn money. | |
| Definitions include: to increase one's stature in life. | |
| Definitions include: to save money or increase personal wealth. | |
| Definitions include: to work hard and get some money. | |
| Definitions include: to bring a person to law enforcement. | |
| Definitions include: the pursuit of money. | |
| Definitions include: to seek "paper" (i.e. money.) | |
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Other terms relating to 'bacon': | |
| Definitions include: the police. | |
| Definitions include: Used when seeing or detecting the presence of a cop nearby. | |
| Definitions include: a greeting. | |
Other terms relating to 'bring': | |
| Definitions include: to sadden one. | |
| Definitions include: to bring a person to law enforcement. | |
| Definitions include: an invitation for a competition, such as a fight, game, etc. | |
| Definitions include: an invitation. | |
| Definitions include: to deliver a good performance ("A-game"). | |
| Definitions include: to show what you can do in a fight or sports event. | |
| Definitions include: to bring an object to a place that already has many of that object. | |
| Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd. | |
| Definitions include: contribute, to a group effort. | |
| Definitions include: "bring your own..." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "bring your own beer", "bring your own bottle", or "bring your own booze". | |
| Definitions include: "bring your own wine". | |
Other terms relating to 'home': | |
| Definitions include: Newfoundland | |
| Definitions include: Newfoundlander | |
| Definitions include: as a guest, to eat an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: "Go home, you're drunk," as a drunk person might say it. | |
| Definitions include: see home run. | |
| Definitions include: friend. | |
| Definitions include: a close friend. | |
| Definitions include: home is where the horror is | |
| Definitions include: a simple minded person, never cognizant of the world around them; MORON. | |
| Definitions include: In the "sexual contact as baseball achievement" metaphor, means sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: friend. | |
| Definitions include: a good friend; "home boy". | |
| Definitions include: a good friend. | |
| Definitions include: a person who has an affair with a married person. | |
| Definitions include: alive but brain-dead. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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