Definition of set you back

set (one) back    

verb

• to cost.

  That new car of yours must have set you back quite a bit.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to buy, spend.

  Last edited on Aug 31 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2011.

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Slang terms with the same meaning

Other terms relating to 'to buy, spend':
pay through the nose	Definitions include: to pay too much money.
spring for	Definitions include: to pay for; buy.
piss (one's) money up the wall	Definitions include: to waste one's money.
blow	Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
chip in	Definitions include: to contribute to a group cause.
cough up	Definitions include: to pay.
splurge	Definitions include: Verb. To ejaculate.
acqui-hire	Definitions include: the acquisition of one company by another, for the purpose of acquiring the employees more so than other aspects of the company's business.
feed the meter	Definitions include: to put coins into a parking meter.
pony up	Definitions include: to pay for.

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Other terms relating to 'back':
back	Definitions include: large buttocks.
back 40	Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
back *sswards	Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards".
back at the ranch	Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent.
back at you	Definitions include: and the same to you.
back-catalog	Definitions include: obscure.
back-catalogue	Definitions include: obscure.
back door	Definitions include: the anus.
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
back-door trots, the	Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea.
back end	Definitions include: the anus.
back forty	Definitions include: a place that is far away.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
back off	Definitions include: large buttocks.
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Other terms relating to 'set':
all set	Definitions include: ready.
jet set	Definitions include: the well-traveled elite who could afford to jet around the world.
set it out	Definitions include: to allow a gang-bang from random guys.
set of lungs	Definitions include: breasts.
set of wheels	Definitions include: a motor vehicle.
set-out	Definitions include: a female who allows gang-bangs with random guys.
set straight	Definitions include: to chastise.
set up	Definitions include: to arrange a meeting between two people in the aim of starting a romantic relationship.
set up shop	Definitions include: to set up one's workplace.

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