Definition of backbone
backbone
noun
- metaphor: having a "backbone" endows one with courage, will.
Why do you let your manager take advantage of you? Grow a backbone.
- See more words with the same meaning: brave.
Last edited on Jun 17 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 17 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'brave': | |
| Definitions include: to face a daunting task, as a brave cowboy would. | |
| Definitions include: socially dangerous or daring; intellectually provocative; tending to induce unease or stress in viewers. | |
| Definitions include: testicles. | |
| Definitions include: brave. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of disappointment. | |
| Definitions include: also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: metaphorical testicles that people with courage or gall have. | |
| Definitions include: cigarette. | |
| Definitions include: full of courage. | |
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| Definitions include: a poor area of a town; "ghetto". | |
| Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to get started. | |
| Definitions include: To masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to simulate sex activity, without the removal of clothes. | |
| Definitions include: In computer speak, to move information from fast-access memory to a slower storage device, e.g. disk ("swap out") or the other way around ("swap in.") This often refers to loading data from disk into memory as needed (swapping in) and writing the data back to disk when it is no longer needed (swapping out.) | |
| Definitions include: "please". | |
| Definitions include: a person who tea bags. | |
| Definitions include: Can't understand something. Confused. | |
| Definitions include: Southern phrase meaning Northerner. |
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