pork up

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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. (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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