| BUYBACK | • buyback n. The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it. • buyback n. A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction… • buyback n. (Countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender. |
| CARRYBACK | • carryback n. (Accounting, taxation) A income tax loss or credit that can be applied to offset previously taxed income… • CARRYBACK n. in accounting, a loss set against the previous year's profit, in order to minimise the total tax. |
| FISHYBACK | • FISHYBACK n. (US) transportation of freight containers and trailers by ship or barge. |
| FLYBACK | • flyback n. The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display. • flyback n. A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals… • fly-back n. Alternative form of flyback. |
| GRAYBACK | • grayback n. Alternative spelling of greyback. • GRAYBACK n. any of various animals having a grey back, such as the grey whale, also GREYBACK. |
| GREYBACK | • greyback n. (Historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms). • greyback n. (Dated) A louse. • greyback n. (Regional) Any of various grey birds. |
| HAIRYBACK | • hairyback n. A gastrotrich. • hairyback n. (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner. • HAIRYBACK n. (offensive South African) an Afrikaaner. |
| LAYBACK | • layback n. (Figure skating) A spin in which the head and shoulders are dropped backwards and the back arched downwards… • layback n. (Climbing) A maneuver to scale a vertical crack, by pulling with the arms and jamming the legs underneath… • layback n. (Surfing) A surf maneuver where the upright surfer leans back against the wave. |
| PAYBACK | • payback n. (Uncountable) An act of revenge. • payback n. (Countable) A benefit, reward, a form of recompense. • payback n. A return on investment. |
| PIGGYBACK | • piggyback adj. On somebody’s back or shoulders. • piggyback adj. Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something… • piggyback adj. Attached or appended to something larger or more important. |
| PLAYBACK | • playback n. The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images. • play␣back v. (Idiomatic, transitive) To replay a recording. • PLAYBACK n. the act of replaying a newly made recording. |
| SWAYBACK | • swayback n. An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse. • swayback n. An animal with such excessive sagging. • SWAYBACK n. an abnormal sagging of the back. |
| WAYBACK | • wayback n. (Dated, informal) An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon… • wayback n. A very remote time or place. • wayback n. An uneducated person from a remote area. |
| WOOLLYBACK | • woollyback n. Alternative form of woolly back. • woolly␣back n. (Liverpudlian slang, now historical) A non-Liverpudlian person who travels to Liverpool, especially… • woolly␣back n. (Liverpudlian slang, derogatory) A person from the area surrounding Liverpool such as Skelmersdale… |