back-to-back

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A house with a party wall at the rear.
  2. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Sequential or consecutive. not-comparable
    — Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
  2. With one's back facing that of somebody else. not-comparable
  3. Emerging in exactly opposite directions. broadly,not-comparable
    — Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.
  4. Having a party wall at the rear. not-comparable
    — We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
  5. Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”). not-comparable,slang
副词 adv.
  1. Alternative form of back to back. alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

back-to-backs plural
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