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back-butter

back-butter verb: to apply adhesive to the back of (a tile) before placing it on the substrate.

Verb

back-butter (third-person singular simple present back-butters, present participle back-buttering, simple past and past participle back-buttered)

  1. (transitive) To apply adhesive to the back of (a tile) before placing it on the substrate.

Forms of back-butter

third-person singular presentback-butters
present participleback-buttering
past participleback-buttered
pastback-buttered

Questions about back-butter

What does back-butter mean?
Back-butter means to apply adhesive to the back of (a tile) before placing it on the substrate.
What part of speech is back-butter?
Back-butter is a verb.
What is the past tense of back-butter?
The past tense of back-butter is back-buttered.

Words near back-butter in the dictionary

  1. back-burnered
  2. back-burnering
  3. back-burners
  4. back-burns
  5. back-butt
  6. back-butter
  7. back-buttered
  8. back-buttering
  9. back-butters
  10. back-butts
  11. back-channel

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