SPARE RIB


Meaning of SPARE RIB in English

noun

a rib of pork (= meat from a pig) with most of the meat cut off :

barbecued spare ribs

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WORD ORIGIN

late 16th cent.: probably from Middle Low German ribbesper (by transposition of the syllables), and associated with the adjective spare .

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