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back-double

back-double noun: a favourite route through a town or city, often used as a shortcut.

Noun

back-double (plural back-doubles)

  1. A favourite route through a town or city, often used as a shortcut.
    • All back-doubles, short-cuts, and roundabout time-savers became redundant.1972, The Motor, Published by Temple Press Ltd., p.24

Forms of back-double

pluralback-doubles

Questions about back-double

What does back-double mean?
Back-double means a favourite route through a town or city, often used as a shortcut.
What part of speech is back-double?
Back-double is a noun.
What is the plural of back-double?
The plural of back-double is back-doubles.

Words near back-double in the dictionary

  1. back-door
  2. back-door bandit
  3. back-door man
  4. back-door pilot
  5. back-door pilots
  6. back-double
  7. back-doubles
  8. back-end
  9. back-ends
  10. back-engineer
  11. back-engineered

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