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Backslaps
- verb - display excessive cordiality (towards); "he is always backslapping his colleagues at staff meetings"
Backslash
- unknown - Computing a backward-sloping diagonal line (\), used to separate file and folder names in some path statements.
- left leaning diagonal line
Backslide
- verb - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Backspace
- noun - hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; "To erase, you must backspace"
- the typewriter key used for back spacing
Backspins
- noun - spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion
Backstaff
- - An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.
Backstage
- adjective - a stage area out of sight of the audience
- concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings"
- in or to a backstage area of a theater; "costumes were changed backstage"
- out of view of the public; behind the scenes; "Working backstage to gain political support for his proposal"; "many private deals were made backstage at the convention"
Backstair
- adjective - secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
Backstays
- noun - a stay that supports the back of something
Backstops
- noun - (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- a precaution in case of an emergency; "he acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong"
- act as a backstop