double back

verb

1. intr, adverb to go back in the opposite direction (esp in the phrase double back on one's tracks )

Idioms and Phrases

Reverse one's course, go back the way one has come. For example, The officer lost the suspect, who had doubled back on him . This term, at first put simply as to double , is used largely to describe a way of evading pursuit. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

But he couldn't double back without being seen and this time they'd be close enough to fill him with lead.

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I'll be gee-whizzly-gol-dusted if he ain't a malleable-iron-double-back-action self-adjusting corn-cracker.'

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It was hardly possible that she would double back, even if she evaded their rigorous search.

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He had no time to double back into the gorse, and here there was no covert but a few bushes, therefore he headed for the wood.

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The next weapon tried was Jink's double back-action revolving cannon for ferry-boats.

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