BACK (body part)
(also see hunchback)
ADJECTIVES
1785 ► MACKEREL-BACKED long-backed → sl. obs.
1830 ► POKER-BACKED having a very straight or stiff back
1893 ► HOWE-BACKED sunken in the back → Eng. dial.
1896 ► TANGLE-BACKED having a long, lank, flexible back → Sc.
1911 ► IN THE BOWFARTS on the back and unable to rise → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1300 ► RIG the back or spine of a person or animal → Eng. dial.
1522 ► RIGGING the back or spine of a person or animal → chiefly Sc.
1591 ► RIGBACK the back or spine of a person or animal → Sc.
1836 ► KEEL the back, the small or middle of the back → Sc.
1898 ► BACK-BREED the breadth of one’s back; hence, a throw, a fall → Sc. (Bk.)
20C.. ► BACK a painful or bad back → sl.
20C.. ► CABOOSE the back → sl.
20C.. ► MEDITERRANEAN BACK fake back pain → Aust. sl.
1911 ► BOOLIE-BACK a bent back; a humpback → Sc. (Bk.)
1977 ► HAMMER AND TACK the back → Aust. rhyming sl.
1992 ► UNION JACK the back → UK rhyming sl.
2000 ► CADBURY(‘S) SNACK one’s back → rhyming sl.
VERBS
1693 ► CULBUT to overturn backwards, to throw anyone on his back; to drive back in disorder
1888 ► CRINK to twist or strain one’s neck or back, causing painful stiffness
1907 ► BE DOWN IN THE BACK to be suffering from pain in the back → US colloq.
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