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baconize en · VERB

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Etymology

From bacon + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To prepare like bacon, by smoking etc.
   • Can you not choose a process more pleasant to the world at large, if you must thus “baconize” your bodies? 1860, Harvard Magazine, volume 6, page 69:
   • A plant will be established in Everett by the Baconized Salmon Company of Juneau, Alaska, for the manufacture of baconized salmon. 1916, Western Canner and Packer, volume 8, page 7:
2. (transitive) To prepare with bacon as an ingredient; to add bacon to.
   • Baconized Macaroni and Corn, with its crisp bacon, suggests a delight […] 1925, Good Housekeeping, volume 80, page 71:
   • One of the best Old Fashioneds I have had was made with baconized bourbon. To make it, buy the smokiest cure of streaky bacon you can find – hickory smoked is best – and cook up enough for a good bacon sandwich. 2018, Kay Plunkett-Hogge, The Art of the Party: Drinks & Nibbles for Easy Entertaining:

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