Usually means: Government funds for local projects.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pork barrel:

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  1. pork barrel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pork barrel: Merriam-Webster
  3. pork barrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pork barrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pork barrel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pork barrel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pork-Barrel, pork-barrel: Wordnik
  8. pork-barrel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pork barrel: Wiktionary
  10. pork barrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pork barrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pork-barrel, pork barrel: Dictionary.com
  13. Pork Barrel (video game), Pork-barrel, Pork barrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pork barrel: Rhymezone
  15. pork barrel: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pork barrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Pork Barrel: The Word Detective
  18. pork-barrel, pork barrel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pork barrel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. pork-barrel, pork barrel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pork barrel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pork_barreling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pork barrel)

noun:  (now rare) A barrel used to store pork.
noun:  (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
noun:  (chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.

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