backed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bækt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ækt
Etymology 1
From back (verb).
Verb
backed
- simple past tense and past participle of back
Etymology 2
From back (noun) + -ed.
Adjective
backed (not comparable)
- (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- (in combination) Having specified type of back.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
- asset-backed securities
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Batarians Codex entry:
- Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.
Hyponyms
- American-backed
- asset-backed
- backed blade
- bare-backed
- battery-backed
- black-backed antshrike
- black-backed jackal
- black-backed water tyrant
- broken-backed
- chestnut-backed antshrike
- chestnut-backed chickadee
- community-backed
- ESA-backed
- factory-backed
- great black-backed gull
- greater black-backed gull
- green-backed firecrown
- green-backed flycatcher
- green-backed gerygone
- green-backed tit
- grey-backed fiscal
- grey red-backed vole
- high-backed
- lute-backed
- mortgage-backed
- mortgage-backed security
- northern red-backed vole
- olive-backed oriole
- olive-backed pipit
- olive-backed sunbird
- purple-backed fairywren
- red-backed fairywren
- red-backed hawk
- red-backed sea eagle
- red-backed shrike
- roach-backed
- rufous-backed antvireo
- rufous-backed fantail
- saddle-backed
- saddle-backed bush cricket
- shield-backed bug
- slaty-backed gull
- spot-backed antshrike
- sticky-backed plastic
- stiff-backed
- streak-backed antshrike
- sway-backed
- whale-backed
- white-backed black tit
Derived terms
- lesser black-backed gull
- razor-backed
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Backed”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.