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Pick up that cross.
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He was very cross.
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She was even crosser.
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Why did he cross the road?
When she crosses.
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  • female hog]”). back (not generally comparable, comparative more back, superlative most back) At or near the rear. Go in the back door of the house. 1918...
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  • takeback take back (third-person singular simple present takes back, present participle taking back, simple past took back, past participle taken back) (transitive)...
    4 KB (159 words) - 17:20, 27 October 2024
  • get back at (third-person singular simple present gets back at, present participle getting back at, simple past got back at, past participle (UK) got...
    783 bytes (77 words) - 10:55, 2 June 2024
  • pat-on-the-back pat-on-the-back (noun) pat on the back (plural pats on the back) (idiomatic) Praise, congratulations. Give yourself a pat on the back for...
    933 bytes (99 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2024
  • See also: back-to-back back to back (not comparable) Alternative form of back-to-back back to back (not comparable) With one's back facing that of somebody...
    734 bytes (75 words) - 05:12, 14 June 2024
  • təˈbæk/ back-to-back (not comparable) Sequential or consecutive. Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs. They sat through two back-to-back movies....
    4 KB (512 words) - 04:33, 28 September 2024
  • back number (plural back numbers) A back issue of a magazine, etc. 1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page...
    523 bytes (59 words) - 12:12, 27 September 2024
  • fall-back fall back (third-person singular simple present falls back, present participle falling back, simple past fell back, past participle fallen back)...
    834 bytes (81 words) - 03:06, 2 February 2024
  • the back is now at the front back to front Reversed, with the back now at the front. The classic VW Beetle is a back to front car, with the engine at...
    1 KB (74 words) - 10:26, 30 August 2024
  • talk back. I'll thank you not to answer back like that! Where are your manners? She answered him back rudely. To reply to a question from (someone) at a...
    1 KB (119 words) - 04:08, 28 September 2024
  • See also: back, bäck, and back- English Wikipedia has an article on: Back (disambiguation) Wikipedia Back A surname. A settlement on the Isle of Lewis...
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  • stab in the back (plural stabs in the back) An act of betrayal or treachery. 2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist‎[1]...
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  • from back- +‎ formation. back-formation (countable and uncountable, plural back-formations) (uncountable, linguistics) The process by which a new word...
    3 KB (127 words) - 09:40, 20 March 2024
  • Comeback, come-back, and Come-back come back (third-person singular simple present comes back, present participle coming back, simple past came back, past participle...
    4 KB (253 words) - 01:15, 24 October 2024
  • Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53: The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock. (intransitive...
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  • See also: back, Back, and bäck From Middle English bak-, bac-, apheretic form of abak, aback (“aback”, adverb). See also aback. back- Back in its adverbial...
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  • United”, in BBC‎[1]: The England international may not have been at his best but it was his intervention when United had their backs to the wall and trailed...
    2 KB (240 words) - 08:03, 2 June 2024
  • go-back go back (third-person singular simple present goes back, present participle going back, simple past went back, past participle gone back) (intransitive)...
    4 KB (262 words) - 12:31, 13 October 2024
  • holdback hold back (third-person singular simple present holds back, present participle holding back, simple past and past participle held back) (idiomatic...
    3 KB (196 words) - 13:46, 17 August 2024
  • See also: back, Back, and back- From Old Swedish bækker, from Old Norse bekkr, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog-. Compare English...
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