English Explanatory Dictionary

back-to-back

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Sequential or consecutive.
  2. With one's back facing that of somebody else.
  3. Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
  4. Having a party wall at the rear.
  5. Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
adv
  1. Alternative form of back to back.
noun
  1. A house with a party wall at the rear.
  2. One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.

Pronunciation

/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-back-to-back.wav

Word forms

back-to-back back-to-backs

Synonyms

wired
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