back-to-back en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Sequential or consecutive.
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.
2009 November 14, Camden Lamont, 1999, in Creepypasta, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020: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.
2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
- (not-comparable) With one's back facing that of somebody else.
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(broadly, not-comparable) 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.
2009, R. Fiore, Alessandro Papa, Igor Ivanov, Jacques Soffer, Diffraction 2008: International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics, Amer Inst of Physics:This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.
2000, S. Söldner-Rembold, Photon '99: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon, Including the 12th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions, Freiburg, Germany, 23-27 May 1999:Photons at leading order are produced back-to-back with an associated parton with nearly identical transverse momenta.
2015, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 392:In the rest frame of the #92;pi⁰ the photons emerge back-to-back isotropically.
1992, David Shaw Brown, A Comparison of High Transverse Momentum Direct Photon and Neutral Pion Events in Negative Pion and Proton-nucleus Collisions at 31.5 GeV Center of Mass Energy:
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(not-comparable, of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
- (not-comparable, slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
Synonyms
Translations (16)
fi perättäinen (sequential or consecutive) · fr dos à dos (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · uk послідо́вний (sequential or consecutive) · es consecutivo (sequential or consecutive) · nl rug-aan-rug (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · it dorso a dorso (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · uk спина́ в спи́ну (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · fi seläkkäinen (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · ru друг за другом (sequential or consecutive) · nv ghąąjįʼ (with one's back facing somebody else's back) · tr arka arkaya (sequential or consecutive) · es espaldera ((house) having a party wall at the rear) · fi peräkkäinen (sequential or consecutive) · ru оди́н за одним (sequential or consecutive) · it consecutivo (sequential or consecutive) · ru поочерёдно (sequential or consecutive)