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back-to-backs

back-to-backs is the plural of back-to-back.

Meaning of back-to-back

Noun

back-to-back (plural back-to-backs)

  1. A house with a party wall at the rear.
  2. (oil industry) One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
    • "He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 101

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Questions about back-to-backs

What is back-to-backs the plural of?
Back-to-backs is the plural of back-to-back.

Words near back-to-backs in the dictionary

  1. back-to-back connection
  2. back-to-back connections
  3. back-to-back loan
  4. back-to-back loans
  5. back-to-back-to-back
  6. back-to-backs
  7. back-to-basics
  8. back-to-nature
  9. back-to-school
  10. back-to-school night
  11. back-to-school nights

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