Clues for the word "BACK"
We've had 115 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 179 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 17, 2026.
Definition of back
- n. - A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- n. - A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
- n. - In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
- n. - An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
- n. - The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
- n. - The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
- n. - The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
- n. - The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- n. - A support or resource in reserve.
- n. - The keel and keelson of a ship.
- n. - The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- n. - A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
- a. - Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
- a. - Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
- a. - Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
- v. i. - To get upon the back of; to mount.
- v. i. - To place or seat upon the back.
- v. i. - To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- v. i. - To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
- v. i. - To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- v. i. - To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
- v. i. - To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
- v. i. - To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
- v. i. - To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
- v. i. - To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
- v. i. - To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
- adv. - In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
- adv. - To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
- adv. - To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
- adv. - (Of time) In times past; ago.
- adv. - Away from contact; by reverse movement.
- adv. - In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
- adv. - In a state of restraint or hindrance.
- adv. - In return, repayment, or requital.
- adv. - In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
- adv. - In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
Referring Clues
- Support
- Safety, e.g.
- See 1-Down
- ___ nine (last half of a golf course)
- Safety, for one
- Front's opposite
- With 118-Across, subject of an I.R.S. request
- See 8-Down
- Endorse
- No longer on vacation
- Here again
- Provide support for
- "Come ___, Little Sheba"
- Football position
- Browser button
- Drive in reverse, with "up"
- Be an angel
- Lend support to
- It makes a stool a chair
- Forth partner
- Place for a pat
- Supply funding for
- Word that can precede 17, 25, 50, 59-Across and 11, 37-Down
- Word with alley or bone
- Get behind
- Involuntary extension of troop tours
- Before hoe or down
- Word that can follow the start of 20-, 38- or 50-Across
- Type of road, seat or burner
- Returned
- Fund
- Rear
- Dorsal area
- Spine locale
- Posterior
- Chair part
- Bet on
- Give an endorsement to
- Underwrite
- With gammon, popular board game
- Give support to
- Lion tamer's warning
- Behind
- Supply with funding
- With 20-Across, working again, aptly
- Throw one's support behind
- Overdue, as pay
- Word that can follow the start of "quarter", "half" and "full"
- ___ and forth
- Support in a cause
- Stand behind
- Move ___ and forth
- Support financially
- One way to lean
- Opposite of front
- Not the front
- Defender returned
- Stevie Nicks "Stand ___"
- See 14
- Reverse
- Support - defender - reverse
- One reinstated in the team?
- Defender who'll retreat?
- End finance
- Support at home again
- Support (from behind?)
- Series of popular time-travel movies
- Support a play or a player
- Support - rear
- Spine
- Place where secret deals are done
- See 12
- See 17
- See 23
- Second retreat?
- Into action again - war like this is painful
- Bet on (horse)
- Support little educational achievement by 15
- Second ago
- See 15
- Reverse taxi up on to top of kerb
- Give support to defensive player
- Reverse bet
- Second defender
- Reverse taxi over top of kerb
- Reverse taxi over, parking at centre
- See 26
- Be retrogressive as a player
- Second room key
- See 13 Across
- Gridiron rusher
- See 4
- Primitive draw?
- How returners will be right?
- See 36-Across
- Financially support
- Massage site
- With 28-Down, part of a golf course
- Be a loaded angel
- ___ and forth (to and fro)
- In town again
- Support, as a Kickstarter project
- On 15 ___; how James Meline travelled 2,000 miles after the US civil war
- Spine's place
- Begin to parallel park, with "in"
- Show support for
- Support with funds
- Lower-priced edition of a book
- Browser command
- One reinstated in the team?
- Defender who'll retreat?
- Reverse takes you there
- What a left arrow might mean
- See 66-Across
- *Defensive player who's often the fastest on the football field
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 17, 2026
- LA Times - July 31, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 05, 2026
- LA Times - March 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - October 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 16, 2025
- LA Times - May 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2025
- LA Times - January 09, 2025
- USA Today - January 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 21, 2024
- New York Times - February 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 18, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 05, 2023
- Family Time - December 04, 2022
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