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means A slang term (sometimes used disparagingly) for a rural, working-class or 'redneck' person, named after the mesh-backed trucker caps associated with that culture.

from The word is a straightforward fusion of 'mesh' and 'back,' lifted directly from the trucker cap's construction — foam front panel, mesh back panel. It jumped from describing the hat to describing its wearer sometime in late-20th-century American slang, especially in skating, punk, and country-adjacent subcultures, where the cap became shorthand for a certain working-class or small-town identity. The leap from object to person is the real story here: wear the hat enough, in enough contexts, and the hat starts wearing you.