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back
noun- an illegal gambling operation US
An abbreviation of “back office”. - We hear Red Scalotta’s back offices gross from one to two million a year. And he probably has at least three backs going. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 144, 1973
- a drink taken immediately after another, a “chaser” US, 1982
- Next morning he went to a bar meeting, as in lawyers, and I went to my own, as in bocoo bourbon and beer backs. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 9, 1990
- the musical accompaniment which a jazz band gives a soloist US
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 22, 1970
- support, help US
- He told me to go to this spot with him. He said he needed some back [backup or help] and he didn’t have anybody. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 19, 1989
- the buttocks US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Fall 1993
- potency; virility GUYANA
- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 57, 1996
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ get off someone’s back
to cease annoying, aggravating, nagging or criticising someone UK, 1961
Often in the exasperated imperative “Get off my back!”.▶ get on someone’s back
to annoy, aggravate, nag or criticise someone AUSTRALIA, 1959
▶ get someone’s back; have someone’s back
to defend or protect someone US- I got your back. — New Jack City, 1990
- Do you get my back when she bashes me? Because I know she does. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- I let him roll with me, and in exchange for having his back in the street, I always had a ride. — Earl “DMX” Simmons, E.A.R.L., p. 137, 2002
▶ it’s got a back to it
used of an article that is being lent, stressing that the loaned article must be returned UK, 1961
A catchphrase mainly in London use.▶ like the back of a bus; like the back end of a bus
ugly, unattractive UK, 1959- Shit, fix yourself up, you look like the back end of a bus. — Buddy Giovinazzo, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, p. 60, 1993
▶ on your back- (of a woman) working as a prostitute AUSTRALIA
- So what with fines, taxation assessments and rent for a room she hardly spends any time in at all, a girl could never get ahead. On her back, I mean. — Sue Rhodes, And when she was bad she was popular, p. 10, 1968
- (of a woman) engaged in sexual intercourse AUSTRALIA
- Christ, where was she? On her back probably. She always liked a fuck before the game. — Robert English, Toxic Kisses, p. 1, 1979
- penniless UK, 1937
An Australian variant, “on the back of your arse”, is first recorded in 1961.
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