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English
- 🔊 (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- 🔊 a support that you can lean against while sitting“the back of the dental chair was adjustable”
- 🔊 the part of a garment that covers the back of your body“they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back”
- 🔊 the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine“his back was nicely tanned”
- 🔊 the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer“he stood at the back of the stage”
- 🔊 (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- 🔊 the side that goes last or is not normally seen“he wrote the date on the back of the photograph”
- 🔊 the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book“the book had a leather binding”
- 🔊 the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord“the fall broke his back”
- 🔊 in or to or toward a past time“set the clocks back an hour”
- 🔊 at or to or toward the back or rear“he moved back”
- 🔊 in repayment or retaliation“we paid back everything we had borrowed”
- 🔊 in or to or toward a former location“she went back to her parents' house”
- 🔊 in or to or toward an original condition“he went back to sleep”
- 🔊 in reply“he wrote back three days later”
- 🔊 strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- 🔊 establish as valid or genuine“Can you back up your claims?”
- 🔊 shift to a counterclockwise direction“the wind backed”
- 🔊 travel backward“back into the driveway”
- 🔊 cause to travel backward“back the car into the parking spot”
- 🔊 support financial backing for“back this enterprise”
- 🔊 be behind“He plumped for the Labor Party”
- 🔊 be in back of“My garage backs their yard”
- 🔊 place a bet on“Which horse are you backing?”
- 🔊 give support or one's approval to“I'll second that motion”
Spanish
- 🔊 costado back
- 🔊 cucucho back
- 🔊 de nuevo back
- 🔊 defensa back
- 🔊 dorso back
- 🔊 espalda back
- 🔊 fondo back
- 🔊 de vuelta back, returned
- 🔊 espaldar back, posterior
- 🔊 re- back, backwards
- 🔊 revés back, reverse side
- 🔊 arredro back, backward, aback
- 🔊 reverso back, back side, reverse
- 🔊 trasero back, back-side, rear-side, posterior