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adv

1. Alternative form of pickaback

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

noun

1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
2. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
3. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

adj

1. Wearing a backpack.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backpack

noun

1. (music, slang) A fan or performer of backpack rap.
2. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

noun

1. A hostel catering to backpackers.
2. plural of backpacker

noun

1. hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
2. low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

verb

1. present participle of backpack

noun

1. plural of backpack

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpack

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
2. A large tattoo on a person's back.
3. A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.

noun

1. (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

noun

1. plural of backplane

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

verb

1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backslap

noun

1. (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
2. (computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
3. The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.

verb

1. (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
2. (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backspace

noun

1. A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.

noun

1. plural of backspace

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backspace

verb

1. present participle of backspace

noun

1. (music) Synonym of spinback
2. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.

verb

1. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
2. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.

noun

1. plural of backspin

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. Swept back.

adj

1. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
2. Standby, reserve or extra.
3. Supporting, reinforcing; (music) of or related to accompaniment

noun

1. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
2. (law enforcement) reinforcements
3. A reserve or substitute.
4. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.

verb

1. Misspelling of back up.

noun

1. plural of backup

noun

1. (computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. A portion of something that is wrapped backward.

verb

1. (computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. To wrap around the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backwrap

noun

1. Misspelling of bankruptcy.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

verb

1. To add speckles.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (cinematography) The process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visual effects and as a subtractive colour process.

verb

1. (cinematography) To load two reels of film in this manner.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bipack

noun

1. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
2. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
4. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.

noun

1. plural of blackcap

noun

1. Choke damp.

noun

1. A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head

Proper noun

1. A town and resort in Lancashire, England

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

verb

1. (Australia) Of a horse, to jump upwards with arched back and head down in an attempt to throw its rider.
2. (Australia) To take part in a buckjumping competition.

noun

1. A horse that buckjumps.
2. One who takes part in buckjumping.

noun

1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts

noun

1. plural of chapbook

noun

1. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
2. (programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
3. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

noun

1. plural of copybook

noun

1. (by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
2. (derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
3. (figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
4. A humpback salmon.
5. A humpback whale.
6. A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

verb

1. To hunt humpback whales.

adj

1. Being a humpback bridge.
2. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of humpback

noun

1. plural of humpback

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humpback

noun

1. An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lampblack

verb

1. present participle of lampblack

noun

1. The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.

adj

1. Not pickable.

noun

1. The quality or state of being packable

adj

1. Capable of being packed.

noun

1. A board worn on the back like a backpack for carrying goods while travelling.

adj

1. (of a book) Having flexible binding.

noun

1. A book with flexible binding.

verb

1. (transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.

adj

1. Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.

noun

1. plural of paperback

noun

1. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
2. A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.

verb

1. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of parbuckle

verb

1. present participle of parbuckle

noun

1. circumvention of an access restriction to a physical site by passing one's access card to another person after having entered

noun

1. (countable) A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
2. (rare) A refund; reimbursement.
3. (uncountable) An act of revenge.
4. A return on investment.

verb

1. Misspelling of pay back.

noun

1. plural of payback

noun

1. One who disturbs the public peace.

noun

1. Disturbing or destroying a state of peace.

adv

1. (Carried) on the back or the shoulders.

verb

1. (transitive) Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pickaback

verb

1. present participle of pickaback

adj

1. Able to be picked.

adv

1. Archaic form of pickaback.

noun

1. (historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.

noun

1. Alternative form of picket boat

noun

1. plural of picketboat

adj

1. Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
2. On somebody's back or shoulders.
3. Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.

noun

1. (countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
2. (medicine, countable, uncountable) The connection of one intravenous drip to another.
3. An act or instance of piggybacking.

verb

1. (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
2. (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate
3. (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon
4. (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
5. (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of piggyback

noun

1. The practice of carrying something piggyback.

verb

1. present participle of piggyback

noun

1. plural of piggyback

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of piggyback

noun

1. Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.