ribspare

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• Pork ribs — are a type of food dish popular in North America and Asian cuisine. Pork and bones from a pig s ribcage are cooked by smoking, grilling, or baking together (usually with a sauce, primarily barbecue sauce), and then served. Cuts of pork ribsThere… …   Wikipedia

• spareribs — /spair ribz /, n. (used with a pl. v.) 1. a cut of meat from the rib section, esp. of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones. 2. a dish of this meat, usually baked, roasted, or barbecued with a pungent sauce. [1590 1600; transposed… …   Universalium

• spare ribs — /ˈspɛə rɪbz/ (say spair ribz) plural noun a cut of meat, especially pork, containing ribs from the upper or fore end of the row, where there is little meat adhering. {transposed variant of ribspare, from Middle High German ribbespēr rib cut.… …  

• spare|rib — «SPAIR RIHB», noun. a rib of pork having less meat than the ribs near the loin. ╂[probably alteration of earlier ribspare < Middle Low German ribbespēr rib cut] …   Useful english dictionary