noun
- salt pork, especially fatty pork from the belly of a pig
Usage: informal; chiefly American
Examples
- The cowboys cooked sowbellies over the campfire.
- Grandmother used sowbellies to flavor her beans.
- The general store sold sowbellies by the pound.
- Trail cooks relied on sowbellies as a protein source.
- He fried up some sowbellies for breakfast.
- The recipe called for chunks of sowbellies.