What does back-to-back mean?
Back-to-back means Sequential or consecutive..
Back-to-back
/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/ · adjective
Meaning
Sequential or consecutive..
Definitions by Sense
- Sequential or consecutive.
- 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”).
- Alternative form of back to back.
- 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
Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
They sat through two back-to-back movies.
An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.
Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.
This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.
Photons at leading order are produced back-to-back with an associated parton with nearly identical transverse momenta.
In the rest frame of the #92;pi⁰ the photons emerge back-to-back isotropically.
We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
Synonyms for back-to-back
Antonyms for back-to-back
Related Words
Word Forms
- back-to-backs
Usage Notes
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a synonym for back-to-back?
Common synonyms include wired, consecutive.
What is the opposite of back-to-back?
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
How do you use back-to-back in a sentence?
Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
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