A part that supports or strengthens from the rear: the back of a couch.
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A shallow vat or tub used chiefly by brewers.
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Sports A player who takes a position behind the front line of other players in certain games, such as football and soccer.
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Sports This playing position.
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The analogous dorsal region in other animals.
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adverb
At, to, or toward the rear or back; backward.
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In check or under restraint: Barriers held the crowd back.
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In reply or return.
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In reserve or concealment.
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In, to, or toward a former condition.
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idiom
Back and fill Nautical To maneuver a vessel in a narrow channel by adjusting the sails so as to let the wind in and out of them in alteration.
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Back to back Consecutively and without interruption: presented three speeches back to back.
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phrasal-verb
Back away To withdraw from a position; retreat.
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Back down To withdraw from a position, opinion, or commitment.
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Back off To retreat or draw away.
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Back out To fail to keep a commitment or promise.
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Back out To withdraw from something before completion.
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adjective
Being in a backward direction.
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Being owed or due from an earlier time; in arrears: back pay.
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Distant from a center of activity; remote.
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Linguistics Pronounced with the back of the tongue, as oo in cool. Used of vowels.
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Located or placed in the rear: Deliveries should be made at the back entrance.
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