Bak
abbreviation
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Historical Examples
The guards goes first to git the truck ready to take us bak to the pen!
Under the Law Edwina Stanton Babcock
Other meanings of bak in Maya are “meat” and the partes pudendas of either sex.
The Maya Chronicles Various
He lays in sleep on sidewalks by bak’ry stores where heat and smell comes; comes somebody, und he runs.
Little Aliens Myra Kelly
You is prayen for me, I no, bekose dat pane I had in my bak and my nee, is done gone.
Bolax Josephine Culpeper
That one ov the riskyest things tew straddle iz the bak ov a 60 day note.
The Complete Works of Josh Billings Henry W. Shaw
They saw that day that ‘the Kirk had a bak,’ and were glad to dismiss the deputies without further debate.
Andrew Melville William Morison
Zwieback, zvī′bak, n. biscuit rusk, or a sweet spiced bread toasted.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) Various
Baculine, bak′ū-līn, adj. pertaining to the stick or cane—in flogging.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Atter dey thru dentifyin us, Old Marster tuk us on bak home wid him, en we sho wus glad ter go.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Work Projects Administration
Thare aint mutch art in driving a trotting hoss, jist hold them bak hard, and holler them ahead hard, thats awl.
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings Henry Wheeler Shaw
Bosnia and Herzegovina-convertible mark
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