'pork barrel' definitions:
Definition of 'pork barrel'
(from WordNet)
noun
A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents [syn: pork barrel, pork]
Synonyms of 'pork barrel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- backscratching,
- bank,
- barter,
- blackmail,
- boodle,
- booty,
- bursary,
- cash register,
- cashbox,
- chest,
- coffer,
- coin box,
- depository,
- even trade,
- exchequer,
- favors of office,
- fisc,
- Fort Knox,
- gold depository,
- graft,
- haul,
- hot goods,
- locker,
- logrolling,
- loot,
- melon,
- money chest,
- patronage,
- penny bank,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- piggy bank,
- plum,
- plunder,
- political patronage,
- pork,
- prize,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- repository,
- safe,
- safe-deposit box,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- squeeze,
- stealings,
- stolen goods,
- storehouse,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- subtreasury,
- swag,
- swap,
- swapping,
- switch,
- take,
- till,
- trade,
- trading,
- treasure-house,
- treasury,
- vault