back-to-back

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Sequential or consecutive.

   “Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.”

2. sıfat With one's back facing that of somebody else.
3. sıfat Emerging in exactly opposite directions.

   “Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.”

4. sıfat Having a party wall at the rear.

   “We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.”

5. sıfat Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
6. zarf Alternative form of back to back.

   “There are five double-bogie A1A-A1A British-built diesel-electric locomotives, which are normally worked back-to-back under the control of a single driver.”

7. isim A house with a party wall at the rear.
8. isim One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.

   “"He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.”