| BACKPEDAL | • backpedal v. (Intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle. • backpedal v. (Intransitive) To step backwards. • backpedal v. (Intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea. |
| BACKPIECE | • backpiece n. A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride’s head. • backpiece n. A large tattoo on a person’s back. • backpiece n. A piece or plate of armour protecting a person’s back. |
| BACKPLANE | • backplane n. (Electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each… • BACKPLANE n. the circuit board on a computer to which other circuit boards and components can be connected. |
| BACKPLATE | • backplate n. A plate protecting a fighting person’s back. • backplate n. (Underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver’s back, to which the gas cylinders are attached. • backplate n. A metal plate on the rear of a computer’s casing, used to cover a port or slot. |
| BACKSPACE | • backspace n. The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards. • backspace n. (Computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one… • backspace n. (Computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace. |
| BACKSPEER | • BACKSPEER v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEIR. |
| BACKSPEIR | • BACKSPEIR v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEER. |
| BACKSWEPT | • backswept adj. Swept back. • BACKSWEPT adj. swept backwards. |
| PALEBUCKS | • PALEBUCK n. a kind of antelope, aka oribi. |
| PAPERBACK | • paperback n. A book with flexible binding. • paperback adj. (Of a book) Having flexible binding. • paperback v. (Transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition. |
| PARBUCKLE | • parbuckle n. A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope… • parbuckle n. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc. • parbuckle v. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. |
| PRESSBACK | • pressback n. A wooden chair of the Victorian period, having a pattern pressed into the crest rail and/or splat by… • PRESSBACK adj. relating to wooden chairs of the Victorian period, having a pattern pressed into the crest rail and/or splat by means of a steam press. |
| SWEEPBACK | • sweepback n. The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil. • SWEEPBACK n. the angle at which an aircraft wing is set back relative to the axis. |
| SWEPTBACK | • sweptback adj. (Of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage. • sweptback adj. (Of a hairstyle) Backswept. • swept-back adj. Alternative form of sweptback. |