back, sack and crack

Noun

back (countable and uncountable, plural backs)

1. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
   • Could you please scratch my back?
   1. The spine and associated tissues.
      • I hurt my back lifting those crates.
   2. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
      • Take the average black man and ask him that.
        She gotta pack much back.1992, “Baby Got Back”, Sir Mix-A-Lot (lyrics)
   3. (figuratively) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
      • I still need to finish the back of your dress.
   4. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
      • Can you fix the back of this chair?
   5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
      • Do thou but think / What ’tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

See all 60 meanings of back