Meaning

Various species that have a white back, including:.

Definitions by Sense

1. Various species that have a white back, including:
2. A type of paperboard used in packaging that has a smooth white surface on one side and a brown or unbleached surface on the other side.
3. (uncountable, chiefly attributive) A type of denim that is indigo on one side, and pale on the back.
4. (humorous) A white immigrant, especially one moving to or from the United States.

Example Sentences

Overall, the downgrading has favored FBB and, in particular, whiteback folding boxboard, which can offer a very good whiteness and therefore good print qualities compared with SBB .

It will give Amcor Cartonboard the ability to produce superior quality whiteback board to that currently made at Petrie, opening up new market opportunities for the company.

It produces grayback and whiteback coated duplex of 250-400 gsm.

The whiteback navy jeans were selected most often;

Of heavy-weight, 111/4-oz. whiteback denim, with the fabric strengthened with 25 percent DuPont 420 nylon, the jeans will not wear or wash white, the company said.

Vat-dyed whiteback denim stays colorfast .

With only a head full of figures and a pocket full of indigestion tablets, a "whiteback" CPA emerges from the Rio Grande hoping for a better life in Mexico.

The " whiteback" joke is from Charlie Hill's appearance on The Tonight Show and is republished in Kenneth Lincoln's book Indian Humor as follows: " the first English immigrants were illegal aliens —' Whitebacks, we call 'em.'

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