If you backtrack, you go back along a path or route you have just used. Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street
To draw blood up into a syringe so as to see if the needle has hit the vein; cf Flag
A spoken or written review or summary of information, usually to build / maintain rapport and to invite revision or correction
If you backtrack in an account or explanation, you talk about things which happened before the ones you were previously talking about. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
In Help Manager, a button and Navigate menu item you use to follow links backward, in the reverse order they were traversed
If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it. The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system The finance minister backtracked on his decision. = back-pedal + backtracking back·track·ing He promised there would be no backtracking on policies