Back-to-back
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Back-to-back is an adjective meaning Sequential or consecutive.
Meaning
Sequential or consecutive.
More Meanings
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- A house with a party wall at the rear.
- (oil industry) One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
Example Sentences
They sat through two back-to-back movies.
We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
In the rest frame of the #92;pi⁰ the photons emerge back-to-back isotropically.
Synonyms for back-to-back
Depending on context, synonyms include wired, consecutive.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include consecutive, succeeding, successive, sequential, simultaneously, sequence.
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