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• back-house

  n. I. [US a house behind the main building DAE] a thatched hut for cooking behind the main house. (Mayag.,
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• back down

  v. phr. to move over (on a bench to make room for another). (Andros, Eleu.)
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• back country

  [US in reference to the 'backs' of colonies facing the Atlantic Ocean DAE 1755 n. the area inland from a
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• back breaker

  n. (in wrestling) holding someone across one's back, with one arm around his leg and the other around his neck,
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• back-back

  [Car.; from back (up) v. + back adv.; both separable and inseparable: cf. Gul. backin' de gig back (Parsons 1923:78),
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• back aside

  [from a combination of back up and step aside] v. phr. to step back; to move out of the way:
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• back-answer

  [Car.; from the noun W3] v. to reply impertinently: That boy would back-answer his daddy. (Gen.)
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• backa-do'

  See TOBACCO DOVE.
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• back

  v. 1. [Car.; from Brit. dial. back to carry on one's back EDD; US dial. idem DARE] to carry on
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• back

  prep. [from use of the adverb without a locative preposition] in, on (a town or island one has left): She
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