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▸ noun: the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
▸ noun: a support that you can lean against while sitting ("The back of the dental chair was adjustable")
▸ noun: the part of a garment that covers your back ("They pinned a `kick me' sign on his back")
▸ noun: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine ("His back was nicely tanned")
▸ noun: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer ("He stood at the back of the stage")
▸ noun: (football) a person who plays in the backfield
▸ noun: the side that goes last or is not normally seen ("He wrote the date on the back of the photograph")
▸ noun: the front and back covering of a book
▸ noun: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord ("The fall broke his back")
▸ verb: establish as valid or genuine ("Can you back up your claims?")
▸ verb: support financial backing for ("Back this enterprise")
▸ verb: be behind; approve of ("I backed Kennedy in 1960")
▸ verb: be in back of ("My garage backs their yard")
▸ verb: shift to a counterclockwise direction ("The wind backed")
▸ verb: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
▸ verb: travel backward ("Back into the driveway")
▸ verb: cause to travel backward ("Back the car into the parking spot")
▸ verb: give support or one's approval to ("I can't back this plan")
▸ verb: place a bet on ("Which horse are you backing?")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward a past time ("Set the clocks back an hour")
▸ adverb: at or to or toward the back or rear ("He moved back")
▸ adverb: in repayment or retaliation ("We paid back everything we had borrowed")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward a former location ("She went back to her parents' house")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward an original condition ("He went back to sleep")
▸ adverb: in answer ("He wrote back three days later")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 33333 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #3655)
▸ Also see backs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to back
▸ Usage examples for back
▸ Idioms related to back (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing back
▸ Words that often appear near back
▸ Rhymes of back
▸ Invented words related to back
▸ noun: the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
▸ noun: a support that you can lean against while sitting ("The back of the dental chair was adjustable")
▸ noun: the part of a garment that covers your back ("They pinned a `kick me' sign on his back")
▸ noun: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine ("His back was nicely tanned")
▸ noun: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer ("He stood at the back of the stage")
▸ noun: (football) a person who plays in the backfield
▸ noun: the side that goes last or is not normally seen ("He wrote the date on the back of the photograph")
▸ noun: the front and back covering of a book
▸ noun: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord ("The fall broke his back")
▸ verb: establish as valid or genuine ("Can you back up your claims?")
▸ verb: support financial backing for ("Back this enterprise")
▸ verb: be behind; approve of ("I backed Kennedy in 1960")
▸ verb: be in back of ("My garage backs their yard")
▸ verb: shift to a counterclockwise direction ("The wind backed")
▸ verb: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
▸ verb: travel backward ("Back into the driveway")
▸ verb: cause to travel backward ("Back the car into the parking spot")
▸ verb: give support or one's approval to ("I can't back this plan")
▸ verb: place a bet on ("Which horse are you backing?")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward a past time ("Set the clocks back an hour")
▸ adverb: at or to or toward the back or rear ("He moved back")
▸ adverb: in repayment or retaliation ("We paid back everything we had borrowed")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward a former location ("She went back to her parents' house")
▸ adverb: in or to or toward an original condition ("He went back to sleep")
▸ adverb: in answer ("He wrote back three days later")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 33333 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #3655)
▸ Also see backs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to back
▸ Usage examples for back
▸ Idioms related to back (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing back
▸ Words that often appear near back
▸ Rhymes of back
▸ Invented words related to back