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Yes, reverse is playable

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OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)

"Reverse" Definition

noun

A change in fortune from better to worse; a setback: suffered financial reverses.
A change to an opposite position, condition, or direction.
A mechanism, such as a gear in a motor vehicle, that is used to reverse movement.
Football An offensive play in which a back running in one direction executes a handoff to a back running in the opposite direction.
Movement in an opposite direction.

verb-transitive

Law To revoke or annul (a decision or decree, for example).
To cause (an engine or a mechanism) to function in reverse.
To cause to adopt a contrary viewpoint.
To change to the opposite: reversed their planned course of action.
To exchange the positions of; transpose.

verb-intransitive

To reverse the action of an engine.
To turn or move in the opposite direction.

verb

To turn completely about in position or direction.
To turn upside down .
To cause to take an opposite point of view .
as.
To overthrow, set aside, or make void (a legal decision) by a contrary decision.

adjective

Causing backward movement: a reverse gear.
Having the back showing or in view of the observer.
Moving, acting, or organized in a manner contrary to the usual.
Printing Printed in such a way that the normally colored part appears white against a colored or black background.
Turned backward in position, direction, or order.

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