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Adjective
  • of an earlier date
    • back issues of the magazine
  • located at or near the back of an animal
    • back (or hind) legs
    • the hinder part of a carcass
  • related to or located at the back
    • the back yard
    • the back entrance
Verb
  • strengthen by providing with a back or backing
  • establish as valid or genuine
    • Can you back up your claims?
  • shift to a counterclockwise direction
    • the wind backed
  • place a bet on
    • Which horse are you backing?
    • I'm betting on the new horse
  • be in back of
    • My garage backs their yard
  • support financial backing for
    • back this enterprise
  • cause to travel backward
    • back the car into the parking spot
  • give support or one's approval to
    • I'll second that motion
    • I can't back this plan
    • endorse a new project
  • travel backward
    • back into the driveway
    • The car backed up and hit the tree
  • be behind; approve of
    • He plumped for the Labor Party
    • I backed Kennedy in 1960
Noun
  • (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
  • a support that you can lean against while sitting
    • the back of the dental chair was adjustable
  • the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
    • they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back
  • the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
    • the book had a leather binding
  • the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    • the fall broke his back
  • (football) a person who plays in the backfield
  • the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
    • he stood at the back of the stage
    • it was hidden in the rear of the store
  • the side that goes last or is not normally seen
    • he wrote the date on the back of the photograph
  • the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
    • his back was nicely tanned
Adverb
  • in repayment or retaliation
    • we paid back everything we had borrowed
    • he hit me and I hit him back
    • I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher
  • in reply
    • he wrote back three days later
  • in or to or toward a past time
    • set the clocks back an hour
    • never look back
    • lovers of the past looking fondly backward
  • in or to or toward an original condition
    • he went back to sleep
  • at or to or toward the back or rear
    • he moved back
    • tripped when he stepped backward
    • she looked rearward out the window of the car
  • in or to or toward a former location
    • she went back to her parents' house
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