Back nine


the final nine holes on an eighteen-hole course.

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    an out-of-date issue of a serial publication. Informal. anything out-of-date. Historical Examples If I’ve got to be a back number I want to romp right back far enough to have some fun out of it. At Good Old Siwash George Fitch If I have I’m a back number—and I’d a great deal rather be dead. […]

  • Back o' beyond

    remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.

  • Back o' bourke

    adverb (Austral) in a remote or backward place

  • Back of

    the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine. the part of the body of animals corresponding to the human back. the rear portion of any part of the body: the back of the head. the whole body, with reference to clothing: the clothes on his […]

  • Back of beyond

    remote; out-of-the-way; isolated. Extremely remote. For example, John’s about to move to some tiny island, truly back of beyond. This term, used as a humorous exaggeration, relies on the meaning of beyond (or the beyond) as “a distant place, beyond human experience.” [ Early 1800s ]


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