Back-to-back

//ˌbæk.təˈbæk// adj, adv, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sequential or consecutive. not-comparable

    "Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs."

  2. 2
    With one's back facing that of somebody else. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Emerging in exactly opposite directions. broadly, not-comparable

    "Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted."

  4. 4
    Having a party wall at the rear. not-comparable

    "We lived in a row of back-to-back houses."

  5. 5
    Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”). not-comparable, slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    one after the other wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of back to back. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

    "A ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too."

Noun
  1. 1
    A house with a party wall at the rear.
  2. 2
    One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.

    ""He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there."

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