noun
- salt pork, especially from the belly or side of a pig
Usage: informal; chiefly American
Examples
- The cowboys cooked sowbelly over the campfire.
- Grandmother used sowbelly to flavor her beans.
- The general store sold sowbelly by the pound.
- They packed sowbelly for the long journey west.
- The recipe called for a piece of sowbelly for seasoning.
- Sowbelly was a staple food on the frontier.