fatback

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Lardons are really nothing fancier than thinly sliced pieces of salt pork or fatback, and yet they've acquired a rather classy reputation through appearances in celebrity chef cookbooks and fancy restaurant menus!

View all »
Examples (12)

  • It's actually a healthy little thing if not prepared with hamhocks, bacon, and fatback.
  • If, as Bill O'Reilly said this morning, you get struck by lightning or some other emergency out of your hands, there should be a safety net in place; but I don't want to pay taxes for your health care if you're wheezing and faltering because you were too weak to quit smoking or just couldn't resist the last 40 years of fatback and McDonalds. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • Lardons are really nothing fancier than thinly sliced pieces of salt pork or fatback, and yet they've acquired a rather classy reputation through appearances in celebrity chef cookbooks and fancy restaurant menus! —  The Kitchn
  • The first time I was there with Mr. Marinara, he asked them for fatback and they told him that he didn't want it ... priceless. —  RVABlogs
  • Gertrude Smith boils a pot of fatback as she prepares another batch of collard greens for collard sandwiches at the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair.
 

Tags

fatback hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 32 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

free · apparition · spritzed · alexandrine · hospitable

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence