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Go backwards

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To decline or deteriorate; to get worse.
  2. 2
    To defecate; to visit the privy. obsolete, slang

    "[O]ne day he expressed his desire of going backwards with such natural imitation of his purpose, that every body in the room firmly believed he had actually overshot himself, and fortified their nostrils accordingly."

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