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bareback

UK/ˈbɛəbæk/US/ˈbɛɚbæk/

bareback adjective: without a saddle.

Adjective

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    • bareback riding
  2. (slang) Without a condom.
    • bareback sex
  3. (dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
    • ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.1937 March 30, Bareback Bathing Ban Off, The New York Times

Adverb

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    • I can ride a horse bareback.
  2. (slang) Without a condom.
    • We had sex bareback.

Verb

bareback (third-person singular simple present barebacks, present participle barebacking, simple past and past participle barebacked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To ride without a saddle.
  2. (ambitransitive, slang) To have sex (with someone) without using a condom.

Noun

bareback (plural barebacks)

  1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
    • Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91

bareback meaning in Hindi and Kannada

bareback in Hindi

without a condom
नंगी चुदाई nangi chudaai

bareback in Kannada

ಜೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಕುದುರೆ ಸವಾರಿ ಮಾಡುವ

Synonyms of bareback

Forms of bareback

Verb
third-person singular presentbarebacks
present participlebarebacking
past participlebarebacked
pastbarebacked
Noun
pluralbarebacks

Origin of bareback

From bare + back.

Words formed from bareback

Questions about bareback

What does bareback mean?
Bareback means without a saddle.
What is bareback in Hindi?
Bareback in Hindi is नंगी चुदाई (nangi chudaai). See Bareback meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bareback?
Bareback can be an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce bareback?
Bareback is pronounced /ˈbɛəbæk/ (UK).

Words near bareback in the dictionary

  1. bareable
  2. barearse
  3. barearses
  4. bareass
  5. bareasses
  6. bareback
  7. barebacked
  8. barebacker
  9. barebackers
  10. barebacking
  11. barebacks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bareback (page history and authors); bareback (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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