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back butter

back butter is the alternative form of back-butter.

Meaning of back-butter

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 is back butter the alternative form of?
Back butter is the alternative form of back-butter.

Words near back butter in the dictionary

  1. back buffers
  2. back burn
  3. back burner
  4. back burners
  5. back burns
  6. back butter
  7. back buttered
  8. back buttering
  9. back butters
  10. back catalog
  11. back catalogs

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