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/bæk/

名詞

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The spine and associated tissues. / (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks. / (figuratively) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.

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He felt a sharp pain in his back after lifting the box.

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意味（1）

The spine and associated tissues.

I hurt my back lifting those crates.

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意味（2）

(slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.

Take the average black man and ask him that. She gotta pack much back.

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(figuratively) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.

I still need to finish the back of your dress.

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The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.

Can you fix the back of this chair?

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(obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)

Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice

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The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.

Turn the book over and look at the back.

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意味（7）

The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.

I hung the clothes on the back of the door.

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意味（8）

Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.

We'll meet out in the back of the library.

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意味（9）

The part of something that goes last.

The car was near the back of the train.

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(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.

The backs were lined up in an I formation.

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意味（11）

(figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.

The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.

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意味（12）

A support or resource in reserve.

This project / Should have a back or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof.

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(nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.

The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.

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(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.

The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.

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(slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.

Put some back into it!

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A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.

Could I get a martini with a water back?

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Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

[…] as delivered by a tanner the average weight of a back and two strips would be about 42 pounds […].

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意味（18）

(swimming) Clipping of backstroke.

backs （ 複数形 ）