Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
follow-on is a noun meaning "an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings". It carries one recorded sense.
an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for follow-on come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.