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  • bacons: have a lot of bacons
    have a lot of bacons [cf. OED to sell one's bacon, i.e. one's flesh or body; DAB to save one's
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  • back-yard
    [Belize large posterior (Dayley 1979)] n. buttocks (not necessarily large). (Nassau)
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  • backaways
    [W Car.; Brit. dial. North idem EDD, US dial. idem ADD] adv. backwards. (Black)
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  • back-up wife
    [cf. back-up in reserve] n. one's wife at home in contrast to an unofficial one elsewhere. (Nassau)
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  • back trunk
    n. (of a car) trunk or boot: I's always tell mama put all a we bag in the back trunk
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  • back-talk
    [E Car.; from the noun DAE] v.t. to talk to someone impertinently: Don't you back-talk me! (Gen.)
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  • back street, back road, back corner
    [cf. US back street a street lying in a back area or running behind the main buildings in a town;
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  • back-of-the-yard
    [cf. US back yard idem DAE] n. phr. the area behind a house: 1936 Why y' don' lemmuh go back
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  • back of the bush
    [cf. BUSH 1 forest] n. phr. deep in the forest, away from other settled areas: Haitians are usually found in the back
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  • back-land
    [US lands lying behind the more settled or accessible areas DAB] n. the area inland from a coastal town; the
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