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back
verb
to carry something on your back BAHAMAS- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 7, 1982
▶ back a tail
to engage in anal sex AUSTRALIA, 1973
▶ back and fill
to vacillate US
Nautical imagery, from the term for handling sails to catch and then spill the wind.- — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 1, 1975
▶ back off the course
to bet a large amount on something AUSTRALIA- “It’s an SP job,” I tells him, “they’ll back it off the course.” — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 107, 1965
▶ back off the map
to bet a large amount on something AUSTRALIA- A horse called Coffee was backed off the map. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 16, 1975
- They waited a fortnight and at Canterbury in a far stronger field, they backed the beaten horse off the map. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 66, 1988
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