Advertisement
Advertisement
back to back
adverb
- (of two similar events) following one immediately after the other; in unbroken sequence; consecutively:
After losing all day, he picked winners back to back in the last two races.
adjective
- adjacent or contiguous but oppositely oriented; having the backs close together or adjoining:
The seats in the day coach are back to back.
- Stud Poker. (of a pair) consisting of the hole card and the first upcard:
He had aces back to back.
back-to-back
adjective
- facing in opposite directions, often with the backs touching
- (of urban houses) built so that their backs are joined or separated only by a narrow alley
- informal.consecutive
- commerce
- denoting a credit arrangement in which a finance house acts as an intermediary to conceal the identity of the seller from the buyer
- denoting a loan from one company to another in a different country using a finance house to provide the loan but not the funding
noun
- a house or terrace built in back-to-back style
Word History and Origins
Origin of back to back1
Example Sentences
Back-to-back Derby winner Yoenis Céspedes will now suit up as an American League outfield reserve.
So there I was, in the position of doing two shows that were going to be on back-to-back nights.
There are two back-to-back forty-five-minute segments without commercials.
Not many people would invite two back-to-back prison trips after two years of hard labor.
Katarina Witt winning back-to-back Gold medals in 1984 and 1988.
In any event, the men should be taught to take some form of a closed back-to-back formation.
Back-to-back, they fired, thrust, hewed and hacked at the swarming enemy.
Most of the photographs were printed back-to-back, but in this eBook, they appear on the pages given in the List of Illustrations.
Here are two back-to-back rear tenements, with dark bedrooms on the south.
T' house wheer I'd bin livin' were a back-to-back house, facin' north, so as we niver gat no sun thro' yeer's end to yeer's end.
Advertisement
Related Words
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse