(sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
verb
To swing backward.
backsword
backsword
noun
(UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
(UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
A sword with one sharp edge.
backwards
backwards
adj
Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
backwoods
backwoods
adj
Pertaining to the backwoods.
Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
noun
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
backwraps
backwraps
noun
plural of backwrap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backwrap
ballhawks
ballhawks
noun
plural of ballhawk
beadworks
beadworks
noun
plural of beadwork
blackwash
blackwash
noun
(chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
blowbacks
blowbacks
noun
plural of blowback
bookwards
brasswork
brasswork
noun
Work or ornamentation made of brass.
bushwhack
bushwhack
verb
to ambush
to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
drawbacks
drawbacks
noun
plural of drawback
hawkbills
hawkbills
noun
plural of hawkbill
hawksbeak
hawksbill
hawksbill
noun
A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.
newsbreak
newsbreak
noun
An instance of news broadcasting.
plowbacks
skewbacks
skewbacks
noun
plural of skewback
skewbalds
skewbalds
noun
plural of skewbald
snowbanks
snowbanks
noun
plural of snowbank
snowbreak
sowbacked
swartback
swartback
noun
(UK, dialect) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus), or swarbie.
swaybacks
swaybacks
noun
plural of swayback
sweepback
sweepback
noun
The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil.
sweptback
sweptback
adj
(of a hairstyle) Backswept.
(of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.