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Definition of Back-to-back
1. Adjective. One after the other. "Back-to-back home runs"
Definition of Back-to-back
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) sequential or consecutive. ¹
2. Adjective. With one's back facing that of somebody else. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a house) Having a party wall at the rear ¹
4. Adverb. With one's back facing that of somebody else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Back-to-back
Literary usage of Back-to-back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1882)
"Mr. LOBLEY : I might term the paper an apology for back-to- back houses, ...
The back-to-back system requires a frontage of 7 yards to each house, ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"I am quite prepared to be told that there are back-to-back houses aiui ...
The back-to-back houses are divided into three sections: A. has streets ..."
3. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"OVER THE HURDLE BACK TO BACK The sharp commands of the captain soon put the troop
in motion, and they trotted along with a cadenced tread, every man a part ..."
4. Public Health by Society of Community Medicine (Great Britain), Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (Great Britain), Society of Medical Officers of Health, Society of Community Medicine (1891)
"Dr. SYKES said the question of back-to-back houses was brought ... The first
thing he asked himself, therefore, was what is a back-to-back house ? ..."
5. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London (1896)
"back-to-back HOUSES. BY ARNOLD EVANS, MD (Read : April nth, 1896.) IN treating
of the influence of the different kinds of dwellings for the labouring ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A " double back*' is a dark slide in which two plates are placed back to back,
being separated by an opaque plate. Each side of the slide can be drawn up or ..."
7. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... to them of that nation, and bound them back to back, and thrown them overboard
into the fea, ..."
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