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back-to-back
(băk'tə-băk')
adj.
Consecutive; successive: back-to-back performances; back-to-back home runs.
adj.
Consecutive; successive: back-to-back performances; back-to-back home runs.
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back to back
1.
With backs close together or touching, as in In the first and second rows of the bus, the seats were back to back, an unusual arrangement. This term also can be applied to persons who stand facing in opposite directions and with their backs touching. [Mid-1800s]
2.
Consecutively, one after another, as in I'm exhausted; I had three meetings back to back. [Mid-1900s]
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categories related to 'back-to-back'
- Baseball - back-to-back: when an event occurs consecutively, as in back-to-back home runs, or back-to-back strikeouts, or back-to-back wins
- Relative Positions - back-to-back: (adj) facing in opposite directions from a common point
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