Definition of back in the day
back in the day 
expression
- at some time before the present. May refer to years, decades, generations, etc.
Citation from "Reconstructing Alice", Raines (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (2007) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Funhouse", Lie To Me (TV), Season 3 Episode 9 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: before, prior to.
Last edited on Jan 12 2011. Submitted by Amber C. from Pungoteague, VA, USA on Jan 16 2003.
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Other terms relating to 'before, prior to': | |
| Definitions include: before. | |
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Other terms relating to 'back': | |
| Definitions include: large buttocks. | |
| Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area. | |
| Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards". | |
| Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent. | |
| Definitions include: and the same to you. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side. | |
| Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: Far away. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: large buttocks. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate; "poop". | |
| Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event. | |
| Definitions include: returned to one's meth or crack addiction. | |
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Other terms relating to 'day': | |
| Definitions include: commercial software available for piracy on the same day it is released to the public. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "all day I dream about sex". | |
| Definitions include: an unknown future time. | |
| Definitions include: a day during which one can't make one's hair look good. | |
| Definitions include: "birthday." | |
| Definitions include: never. | |
| Definitions include: phrase acknowledging or expressing sadness. | |
| Definitions include: to stop performing a task. | |
| Definitions include: a Christian who attends church only on Christmas, Easter and Mother's Day. | |
| Definitions include: Stands for Day After Drunk Shit. | |
| Definitions include: a day off from work. | |
| Definitions include: a long time. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "End of Day." | |
| Definitions include: for a long time. | |
| Definitions include: an expression meaning a long time | |
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Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
| Definitions include: never. | |
| Definitions include: to be in a bad situation along with others. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: Inclusive | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
| Definitions include: meaning caring about everything. | |
| Definitions include: extremely popular. | |
| Definitions include: taking a passive role. | |
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| Heard it but never used it | (38) | |
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| Have never heard it | (4) | |
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