Definition of dial back
dial back 
verb - transitive
- to reduce in frequency or intensity.
You need to dial back the drinking, man.
Dial it back a notch, hitting on the women.
- See more words with the same meaning: to decrease, reduce.
Last edited on Jan 03 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to decrease, reduce': | |
| Definitions include: to reduce. | |
| Definitions include: to calm down. | |
| Definitions include: to relax; "hang out". | |
| Definitions include: to decrease. | |
| Definitions include: to reduce. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
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: at some time before the present. | |
| 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. | |
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Other terms relating to 'dial': | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally call a person on a cellphone that's in one's pocket. | |
| Definitions include: a person's face. | |
| Definitions include: to reduce. | |
| Definitions include: extreme approval, great, awesome, fine or meaning to be perfect, precise or better. | |
| Definitions include: To be very proficient at a given activity. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: a bore, dullard. | |
| Definitions include: To make or get something. | |
| Definitions include: to make a phone call while drunk. | |
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