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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard US
2. 2
   salt pork from the back of a hog carcass wordnet
3. 3
   A fish, the menhaden.

Etymology

From fat + back.

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