backed
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From back (verb).
Verb edit
backed
- simple past and past participle of back
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
backed (not comparable)
- (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- (in combination) Having specified type of back.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
- asset-backed securities
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Batarians Codex entry:
- Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- asset-backed commercial paper
- asset-backed security
- backed blade
- black-backed antshrike
- black-backed grosbeak
- black-backed jackal
- black-backed water tyrant
- chestnut-backed antshrike
- chestnut-backed chickadee
- community-backed
- factory-backed
- great black-backed gull
- greater black-backed gull
- green-backed firecrown
- green-backed flycatcher
- green-backed gerygone
- green-backed tit
- grey-backed fiscal
- grey red-backed vole
- hog-backed
- lesser black-backed gull
- mortgage-backed
- mortgage-backed security
- northern red-backed vole
- olive-backed oriole
- olive-backed pipit
- olive-backed sunbird
- olive-backed thrush
- purple-backed fairywren
- razor-backed
- red-backed fairywren
- red-backed hawk
- red-backed sea eagle
- red-backed shrike
- roach-backed
- rufous-backed antvireo
- rufous-backed fantail
- russet-backed thrush
- saddle-backed
- saddle-backed bush cricket
- shield-backed bug
- silver-backed fox
- slaty-backed gull
- spot-backed antshrike
- sticky-backed plastic
- stiff-backed
- streak-backed antshrike
- sway-backed
- unbacked
- whale-backed
- white-backed black tit
References edit
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Backed”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.