BACKACHES | • backaches n. Plural of backache. • BACKACHE n. pain in the back. |
BACKBENCH | • backbench adj. Relating to the back benches in parliament. • backbench adj. Pertaining to the preparation of a donor organ prior to transplantation. • backbench adj. Secondary or inactive. |
BACKCHATS | • backchats n. Plural of backchat. • backchats v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backchat. • back-chats v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back-chat. |
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… |
BACKCLOTH | • backcloth n. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop. • back-cloth n. Alternative spelling of backcloth. • BACKCLOTH n. the painted cloth or curtain at the back of the stage. |
BACKFISCH | • backfisch n. A teenage or late-adolescent girl. • BACKFISCH n. (German) a young girl, a flapper. |
BODYCHECK | • bodycheck n. Alternative spelling of body check. • bodycheck v. Alternative spelling of body check. • body-check v. To perform a body check; to shove. |
BOYCHICKS | • boychicks n. Plural of boychick. • BOYCHICK n. (Yiddish) boy, a term of endearment, also BOYCHIK. |
CASHBACKS | • CASHBACK n. getting cash back on a credit card. |
CHAIRBACK | • chairback n. The rear part of a chair that supports the sitter’s back. • CHAIRBACK n. the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back. |
CHECKABLE | • checkable adj. Able to be checked or verified. • checkable adj. Able to be marked with a check mark, or tick. • checkable adj. (Finance, not comparable) Alternative form of chequable. |
CHECKBOOK | • checkbook n. Alternative form of chequebook. • CHECKBOOK n. (US) a chequebook. |
DABCHICKS | • dabchicks n. Plural of dabchick. • DABCHICK n. the little grebe, also DIPCHICK, DOBCHICK. |
DOBCHICKS | • dobchicks n. Plural of dobchick. • DOBCHICK n. the little grebe, also DABCHICK, DIPCHICK. |
HATCHBACK | • hatchback n. A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards. • hatchback n. The door itself. • HATCHBACK n. a car with a certain type of liftable back. |
HUCKABACK | • huckaback n. A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels. • HUCKABACK n. an absorbent cotton or linen used for towels. |
HUNCHBACK | • hunchback n. One who is stooped or hunched over. • hunchback n. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back. • hunchback n. (Derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance. |
NOTCHBACK | • notchback n. A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment. • NOTCHBACK n. a car whose roof does not slope continuously from the roof to the bumper, but juts out from the bottom of the rear window. |
PINCHBECK | • pinchbeck n. An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. • pinchbeck adj. (Not comparable) Made of pinchbeck. • pinchbeck adj. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive. |
TOUCHBACK | • touchback n. (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the… • TOUCHBACK n. a play in which the ball is dead on or behind a team's own goal line, having been put across the line by an opponent but actually put down by a member of that team. |