goback noun2 •(US, disapproving) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […] — 1993 •A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.Bees will then work in the whole super evenly and leave no gobacks. — 1909 formsgobacks
