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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east..
Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]
How many turned around and headed for wherever they came from is not known, but these "gobacks" or "turnarounds," as many emigrants called them, often complained that there was either little or no grass for their animals or that there was too much cholera or that the Indian threat was too great.
There may be one or a dozen or perhaps a hundred or so of supers with partly filled sections, and these are all designated as "gobacks". They are either placed on top of other supers that are being built out from foundation, or upon colonies that seem to show a special aptitude for finishing up gobacks.
Bees will then work in the whole super evenly and leave no gobacks.
Use goback when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Goback means (US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east..
Common synonyms include turnaround.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]
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