The Collaborative International Dictionary
Porterhouse \Por"ter*house\, n. A house where porter is sold.
Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
Wiktionary
n. A porterhouse (meat)
WordNet
n. large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin [syn: porterhouse]
Usage examples of "porterhouse steak".
What I wanted was a porterhouse steak, au gratin potatoes, and glazed baby carrots, but they were probably smart not to dare my weakened body with solid food.
At home, I gorged myself on liver, porterhouse steak and spinach and fell asleep before I could get out of my clothes.
And when it grew bitter cold and I was out looking for the job I used to get terribly hungry sometimes - it's really healthy going out like that day after day prowling about the city in rain and snow and wind and hail - and so now and then I'd drop in to a cosy tavern and order myself a juicy porterhouse steak with onions and French fried potatoes.
I'd trade the brave new world for an old-fashioned capitalistic porterhouse steak.
I parked in the Lucky's lot, went inside, and selected two baking potatoes, green onions, a very nice Porterhouse steak, and three six-packs of Falstaff beer.
He mashed the potatoes in a bowl and spooned them onto two plates as Loren delivered a porterhouse steak sliced in two.
A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar.
Quail was followed by porterhouse steak which preceded broiled chicken, each course accompanied by a variety of hot bread—.
Quail was followed by porterhouse steak which preceded broiled chicken, each course accompanied by a variety of hot bread -- wheat muffins, corn sticks, toast, and butter.
No medium-rare porterhouse steak, doused and flamed in cognac, tasted better than this bologna, Pitt decided.
For some reason, at the moment he reminded her of a great big porterhouse steak, nice and rare.
Or that she can eat a sixteen-ounce porterhouse steak and not gain an ounce?
Let's have some more of that concentrated porterhouse steak of yours, Ned.