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hark-backs

hark-backs is the plural of hark-back.

Meaning of hark-back

Noun

hark-back (plural hark-backs)

  1. An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
  2. (figuratively) An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).
    • The addendum cancelling the closures refers to 14 pages […] in which Table 183 is reproduced in its old form with connections to and from Liverpool, Bradford, York, Edinburgh etc. – a hark-back to G.C. ambitions.1961 June, “Talking of Trains: Early Timetables – but at a Price”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325
    Synonyms:
    callback

Questions about hark-backs

What is hark-backs the plural of?
Hark-backs is the plural of hark-back.

Words near hark-backs in the dictionary

  1. hark
  2. hark back
  3. hark backs
  4. hark who's talking
  5. hark-back
  6. hark-backs
  7. harka
  8. Harkabi
  9. Harkabis
  10. harkara
  11. harkaras

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