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back-assward

back-assward is the alternative form of bass-ackwards.

Meaning of bass-ackwards

Adjective

bass-ackwards (comparative more bass-ackwards, superlative most bass-ackwards)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic, informal) Spoonerism of ass-backwards
    • Their whole approach is bass-ackwards.

See all 2 meanings of bass-ackwards

Forms of back-assward

comparativemore back-assward
superlativemost back-assward

Questions about back-assward

What is back-assward the alternative form of?
Back-assward is the alternative form of bass-ackwards.

Words near back-assward in the dictionary

  1. back-announcements
  2. back-announces
  3. back-announcing
  4. back-arc
  5. back-arcs
  6. back-assward
  7. back-asswards
  8. back-bench
  9. back-bencher
  10. back-benchers
  11. back-benches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-assward (page history and authors); bass-ackwards (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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