“Big back” is slang for an overweight person, a “food lover” or someone who eats a lot, according to Urban Dictionary.

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Slang is a funny thing. In English, the word itself, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, comes from the mid-18th century and is of unknown origin. Slang is informal language, usually ...

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