back-to-back /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/adjective 5noun 2back to back adverb 2forms 1 adjective5 •With one's back facing that of somebody else. •Sequential or consecutive.Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.They sat through two back-to-back movies. •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. — 2009 •Having a party wall at the rear.We lived in a row of back-to-back houses. •(slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”). noun2 •A house with a party wall at the rear. •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. — 2005 back to back adverb2 •With one's back facing that of somebody else.Stand back to back so that we can see which of you is taller. •Consecutively; one after the other.The next two series entries, shot back to back, return to present day and continue to portray the puppets as good guys. — 2001 formsback-to-backs
