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Backstab
- unknown - A betrayal, especially by a false friend.
- Betray
Backstay
- noun - a stay that supports the back of something
Backstop
- noun - (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- a precaution in case of an emergency; "he acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong"
- act as a backstop
Backtalk
- noun - an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass"
Backward
- adjective - (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover"
- at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"
- directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
- having made less than normal progress; "an economically backward country"
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
- in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
- retarded in intellectual development
Backwash
- noun - the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"
Backworm
- - A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
Backyard
- noun - the grounds in back of a house