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Definition of stabbing them in the back

stab in the back

verb

  • to betray a person.
    I can't believe I trusted you with my secrets, then you stabbed me in the back.

    Last edited on Oct 26 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 26 2011.

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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: obscure.
Definitions include: obscure.
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Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea.
Definitions include: the anus.
Definitions include: a place that is 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.

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: at some time before the present.
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Definitions include: included.
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Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'stab':

Definitions include: to betray a person; to "stab a person in the back".
Definitions include: a traitor.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
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.
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Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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