back number
English
editNoun
editback number (plural back numbers)
- A back issue of a magazine, etc.
- 1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
- Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers.
- Anything considered old-fashioned.
Synonyms
edit- (magazine): back issue
- (something considered old-fashioned): has-been