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back on (one's) feet
- doing better after an unfavorable event.
Things were bad after I lost my job, but I'm back on my feet again.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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back on pipe
adjective
- returned to one's meth or crack addiction.
Hey look that's Leana is she doing that shit again? Yeah she's back on pipe.
Will take care of this first and when we get back home, we will be back on pipe.
Last edited on Mar 28 2013. Submitted by jackjackal from Orange County Airport (MGJ), Montgomery, NY 12549, USA on Jan 31 2013.
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backronym 
noun
- a word that has come to be an acronym (or is viewed by some as an acronym) when it was not originally an acronym.
Slang examples include "SHIT" meaning "ship high in transit", "PHAT" meaning "pretty hot and tempting", etc.
"Backronym" is itself an acronym, being "back" + "acronym".- See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Feb 11 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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back room
adjective
- away from public scrutiny. Usually in reference to business or political arrangements.
Citation from "5 Minute Delay Scuttles Chance at $40 Billion Air Force Deal", Wired, Noah Shachtman, Aug 7 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: quiet, secret.
Last edited on Aug 07 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 07 2010.
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back seat driver
noun
- a passenger in a motor vehicle who tells the driver how to drive better.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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back shot
noun
- The recycled smoke that is exhaled into another's lungs.
Last edited on Jan 10 2012. Submitted by spacey vancouver bc on Jan 10 2012.
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backstab
verb - ambitransitive
- to betray a person; to "stab a person in the back".
Citation from "Chapter 4", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 1 Episode 4 (2009) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Nov 20 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 20 2011.
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backstabber
noun
- a traitor.
Citation from "Compassion", Wilfred (US TV), Season 1 Episode 9 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Chapter 12", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to betray.
Last edited on Dec 20 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 26 2011.
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back to (one's) roots
- to revisit one's past.
Last edited on Sep 09 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.
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back to square one
- to go back to the beginning.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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