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backgates

backgates is the plural of backgate.

Meaning of backgate

Noun

backgate (plural backgates)

  1. A gate that supplies a negative voltage.
  2. (slang) The anus.
    • You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade, about to be violated by Lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 502–503
    Synonyms:
    back door

Questions about backgates

What is backgates the plural of?
Backgates is the plural of backgate.

Words near backgates in the dictionary

  1. backgammoners
  2. backgammoning
  3. backgammons
  4. backgate
  5. backgated
  6. backgates
  7. backglass
  8. backglasses
  9. backgrind
  10. backgrinding
  11. backgrindings

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