| BACKCHECK | • backcheck v. (Transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one’s own goal. • backcheck v. (Intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one’s own goal. • backcheck v. (Quality control) To check someone else’s work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type… |
| BOOKMAKER | • bookmaker n. A person who prints or binds books. • bookmaker n. A person who compiles books from the writings of others. • bookmaker n. (Gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie. |
| BREAKBACK | • breakback adj. Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”). • break␣back v. (Tennis, of a receiver) To win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point… • BREAKBACK adj. crushing. |
| BREAKNECK | • breakneck adj. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather. • breakneck n. A fall that breaks the neck. • breakneck n. A dangerous steep place from which one could fall badly. |
| BRICKLIKE | • bricklike adj. Resembling a brick. • BRICKLIKE adj. like a brick. |
| BROOKLIKE | • brooklike adj. Resembling or characteristic of a brook. • BROOKLIKE adj. like a brook. |
| BUCKRAKES | • BUCKRAKE n. a large agricultural rake, often attached to a tractor. |
| CHECKBOOK | • checkbook n. Alternative form of chequebook. • CHECKBOOK n. (US) a chequebook. |
| DUIKERBOK | • duikerbok n. Alternative form of duykerbok. • DUIKERBOK n. (South African) a small South African antelope, also DUIKER, DUYKER. |
| JAMBOKKED | • jambokked v. Simple past tense and past participle of jambok. • JAMBOK v. (South African) to beat with a rhinoceros-hide whip, also SJAMBOK. |
| KICKBOXED | • kickboxed v. Simple past tense and past participle of kickbox. • KICKBOX v. to box in a style that allows kicking. |
| KICKBOXER | • kickboxer n. (Martial arts) One who practices the martial art of kickboxing. • KICKBOXER n. one who practises kickboxing. |
| KICKBOXES | • kickboxes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kickbox. • KICKBOX v. to box in a style that allows kicking. |
| SKEWBACKS | • skewbacks n. Plural of skewback. • SKEWBACK n. a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests. |