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backal

backal adjective: of or involving a person's back (rather than the front or side).

Adjective

backal (not comparable)

  1. (especially, humorous) Of or involving a person's back (rather than the front or side).
    • full backal nudity
    • In television, the final refuge of Victorianism, eroticism is the great no-no. "I have coined the expression: 'At NBC, we don't show frontal, backal or sidal nudity,'" Traviesas says. "Although I squirm a little — we are showing more backal nudity."1977, New Times

Examples of backal in a sentence

  • I'll have to draw the line at frontal nudity, but I would consider backal or sidal nudity, provided I get a good percentage of …1989 August 24, Blair P. Houghton, LeMovie, rec.bicycles, Usenet, quoting an earlier post by Daniel Mocsny
  • There is a Full Backal shot as Arnold looks out over the L.A. skyline, and a distant shot, Full Frontal, as he is approaching the punks, [...]1991 June 10, Synth F. Oberheim, “Nudity in The Terminator”, in alt.cult-movies (Usenet):
  • Was the full-backal-nudity shot of the lady doctor radiology instructor a first for a network prime-time series, or have I just been leading too sheltered a life, and such shots are common nowadays?1992 September 2, William G. Martin, “First "Full-backal" nudity on TV? (was Re: GOING TO EXTREMES)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
  • There's gonna be full frontal and backal strip searches.1999 February 8, Ned Goldreyer, “The Competition” (7:13 from the start), in Dilbert, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Dogbert (Chris...

Origin of backal

From back + -al, in humorous reference to frontal. Used since at least the 1970s.

Words that rhyme with backal

Questions about backal

What does backal mean?
Backal means of or involving a person's back (rather than the front or side).
How do you use backal in a sentence?
I'll have to draw the line at frontal nudity, but I would consider backal or sidal nudity, provided I get a good percentage of …
What part of speech is backal?
Backal is an adjective.

Words near backal in the dictionary

  1. backactions
  2. backactor
  3. backactors
  4. backage
  5. backake
  6. backal
  7. backalong
  8. backannotation
  9. backarapper
  10. backarappers
  11. backararar

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