Phrase guide
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adv
Back to back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From French dos à dos (“back to back”), from dos (“back”) (from Latin dorsum (“back”)) and à (from Latin ad (“to”).
