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A person's or animal's back is the part of their body between their head and their legs that is on the opposite side to their chest and stomach. She turned her back to the audience Three of the victims were shot in the back

The back of something such as a piece of paper or an envelope is the side which is less important. Send your answers on the back of a postcard. front

You use back in expressions such as out back to refer to the area behind a house or other building. You also use in back to refer to the rear part of something, especially a car or building. Dan informed her that he would be out back on the patio cleaning his shoes Catlett got behind the wheel and I sat in back

disapproval If you say that something was done behind someone's back, you disapprove of it because it was done without them knowing about it, in an unfair or dishonest way. You eat her food, enjoy her hospitality and then criticize her behind her back

to take a back seat: see seat

You can use back in expressions such as round the back and out the back to refer generally to the area behind a house or other building. He had chickens and things round the back

If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last. He wears his baseball cap back to front The picture was printed back to front. = backwards

If you break the back of a task or problem, you do the most difficult part of what is necessary to complete the task or solve the problem. It seems at least that we've broken the back of inflation in this country

If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it. The cuts, if approved, come on the back of a difficult eight years that have seen three London fire stations closed

If someone or something puts your back up or gets your back up, they annoy you. Some food labelling practices really get my back up. = irritate

The back of a chair or sofa is the part that you lean against when you sit on it. There was a neatly folded pink sweater on the back of the chair

The back of a book is the part nearest the end, where you can find the index or the notes, for example. the index at the back of the book front

In team games such as football and hockey, a back is a player who is concerned mainly with preventing the other team from scoring goals, rather than scoring goals for their own team. = defender forward

In American football, a back is a player who stands behind the front line, runs with the ball and attacks rather than defends

If someone is on the back foot, or if something puts them on the back foot, they feel threatened and act defensively. From now on Labour will be on the back foot on the subject of welfare. another scheme designed purely to put the Scots Nationalists on the back foot

The back of something is the side or part of it that is towards the rear or farthest from the front. The back of something is normally not used or seen as much as the front. a room at the back of the shop She raised her hands to the back of her neck Smooth the mixture with the back of a soup spoon front

Back is used to refer to the side or part of something that is towards the rear or farthest from the front. He opened the back door Ann could remember sitting in the back seat of their car. the path leading to the back garden. front

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