fatback

1. 1.

   salt pork from the back of a hog carcass

   Broadersalt pork

Other forms of fatback

plural

fatbacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fatback

What does fatback mean?

fatback means "salt pork from the back of a hog carcass".

How many syllables are in fatback?

fatback has 2 syllables and divides as fat-back under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.