back-to-back
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back-to-back
- /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
adjective
- Sequential or consecutive. Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- Emerging in exactly opposite directions. Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.
- Having a party wall at the rear. We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
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Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
Similar: wired
adverb
- Alternative form of back to back There are five double-bogie A1A-A1A British-built diesel-electric locomotives, which are normally worked back-to-back under the control of a single driver.
noun back-to-backs
- A house with a party wall at the rear.
- One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately. "He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.
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adj sequential or consecutive
| Español | consecutivo |
|---|---|
| Italiano | consecutivo |
| Русский | оди́н за одним odín za odnim, друг за другом drug za drugom, поочерёдно poočerjódno |
adj with one's back facing somebody else's back
| Français | dos à dos |
|---|---|
| Italiano | dorso a dorso |
adj (house) having a party wall at the rear
| Español | espaldera |
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