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Back-to-back
//ˌbæk.təˈbæk// adj, adv, noun, slang
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Adjective
- 1 Sequential or consecutive. not-comparable
"Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs."
- 2 With one's back facing that of somebody else. not-comparable
- 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 Having a party wall at the rear. not-comparable
"We lived in a row of back-to-back houses."
- 5 Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”). not-comparable, slang
Adjective
- 1 one after the other wordnet
Adverb
- 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 A house with a party wall at the rear.
- 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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