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Definition of walk back
walk back
verb - transitive
- to attempt to withdrawal a previous statement.
He's trying to walk back his promise about lowering taxes.
Last edited on Sep 20 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 20 2012.
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| Definitions include: large buttocks. | |
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| 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: Slang for having a shit. | |
| Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event. | |
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Other terms relating to 'walk': | |
| Definitions include: a person prone to accidents. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: cock of the walk, means a person who shows off themselves in a strutting manner, a swagger. this is a very old colloquialism left over from our more rural heritage, from a time when we kept chickens on the farm. | |
| Definitions include: the walk performed when wearing saggy pants and holding them up by the crotch. | |
| Definitions include: to perform a particular dance created by the Crips gang. | |
| Definitions include: to be kicked out of a relationship. | |
| Definitions include: The humiliating public appearance under police arrest of some prominent or wealthy person, usually while being walked to a criminal law proceeding, such as an arraignment. | |
| Definitions include: a non-sailor; someone without sea legs. | |
| Definitions include: A person (or persons) waving "sales theme signs" with arrows at entrances to major highways or at corners of high traffic intersections directing customers to a sale. | |
| Definitions include: a prostitute. | |
| Definitions include: male masturbation. | |
| Definitions include: to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: to go free from a criminal charge. | |
| Definitions include: to mistreat freely. | |
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