salt pork

1. 1.

   fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt

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Questions about salt pork

What does salt pork mean?

salt pork means "fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt".

Is salt pork a common word?

salt pork is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.