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Definition of Pork barrel
1. Noun. A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pork Barrel
Literary usage of Pork barrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Problems of Government by Charles Grove Haines (1921)
""Log-rolling" and the "Pork-barrel System."—The haphazard and wasteful methods
... "pork barrel" methods seem to have developed first in connection with the ..."
2. Principles and Problems of Government by Charles Grove Haines (1921)
"Similarly, the term "pork barrel" is reminiscent of life on the old southern ...
"pork barrel" methods seem to have developed first in connection with the ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"In recent years the river and harbor bill is not the only "pork barrel" which is
opened. The bills appropriating money for public buildings, ..."
4. The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each by Abby Maria Hemenway, George W. Wing, Carrie Elizabeth Hemenway Page (1871)
"... but to our great mortification were not able to bring on the pork barrel by
reason of the debility of the Count. We then fried some slices of pork, ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"Reclamation Put in the pork barrel THE reason for the mysterious delay in the
passage of the bill which extends the time of repaying the cost of Reclamation ..."
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