back-to-back
/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.73 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
With one's back facing that of somebody else.
adj
adj
Having a party wall at the rear.
adv
noun
A house with a party wall at the rear.
noun
One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
Example Sentences
- "Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs."
- "They sat through two back-to-back movies."
- "So, of course, every time I came home from school, I would stay glued to the TV until Pokémon came on at five. The only problem was that my dad watched the news at 5:30, and Pokémon episodes were back-to-back, which meant I had to miss an episode every day, something I whined on and on about."
- "An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months."
- "Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted."
- "This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section."