Backshot

adj, noun, verb, slang

adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shot that sends something backwards, such as a shot that sends the ball behind the player making it.

    ""Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive."

  2. 2
    A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to an earlier point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
  3. 3
    A shot in the back.

    "Who knows but they might come and fire a backshot at us, before we could get home; and then the devil take us, if the chance wouldn't be that some of us would'nt get home at all, at all."

  4. 4
    To physically attack or ambush from the behind of another person.
  5. 5
    A shot taken from behind the subject.

    "If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!"

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  1. 6
    A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style. Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang

    "In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good backshot inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good backshot up inside her abdomen to keep her quiet/calm)."

  2. 7
    An act of anal sex. East-Midlands, dated, vulgar
Verb
  1. 1
    To engage in anal sex. Internet, colloquial
  2. 2
    To be raped anally. Internet, colloquial
  3. 3
    To be shot in the back. Internet, colloquial
  4. 4
    simple past and past participle of backshoot form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel. not-comparable

Synonyms

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foreshotundershot

Example

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""Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive."

Etymology

From back + shot.

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