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ADJ.
hectic, lost
VERB + BACK-TO-BACK
games, got, hit, overshot, sat, talk
BACK-TO-BACK + NOUN
deadlines, home, life, man, meetings, movies, rig
PREP.
in, on, through, with
adj
Sequential or consecutive.
Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
They sat through two back-to-back movies.
With one's back facing that of somebody else.
Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
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.
Having a party wall at the rear.
We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
adv
Alternative form of back to back.
A ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.
noun
A house with a party wall at the rear.
One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
"He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.
adjective — one after the other
Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
WiktionaryThey sat through two back-to-back movies.
WiktionaryAn 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.
WiktionaryA ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by t
Wiktionary"He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.
WiktionaryYanni got two back-to-back life sentences for the murders.
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In some senses, back-to-back is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.