单词 | go-back |
释义 | go-backadj.n. Billiards. Designating a type of handicap game in which the stronger player's score is reset to zero after a miss, or after an opponent scores. Also: designating the player subject to such scoring in this game. Only in go-back game, go-back player. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > varieties of game carambole1775 portobello1777 carambole game1807 go-back game1839 pyramid1850 pin pool1864 shell-out1866 pocket billiards1871 pocket pool1877 snooker('s) pool1889 puff billiards1897 kelly1898 slosh1938 bar billiards1966 1839 E. Kentfield Game of Billiards 37 The Go-back Game... Every time the adversary makes a canon or hazard, all the points which the go-back player has made are taken off. 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 11 He played the best amateurs the go-back game, fifty-up... It seems only to have been played by screwing back and by crossing; and not by returning from the slow list cushion. B. n. ΚΠ 1850 Purpose of Existence xxxi. 335 A certain set of purblind go-backs conceived the idea of asserting for the church an indefeasible claim to independent self-government in its doctrines. 2. A reversal; (also) a return. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > instance(s) of efter-chara1400 returna1527 rearrival1738 rentrée1774 go-back1858 1858 Floricultural Cabinet May 121 Where they had one advance, they had five hundred go-backs. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 320 It's a sort of go-back into the old life. 1993 E. Ukrainetz Baby I Love You 11 Struggling against the go-back go-back of the punching waves. 2012 R. J. Kaden et al. Leading Edge Marketing Res. xix. 368 The devices can track exhibits attended, time spent on each, and go-backs, so the museum knows what you are interested in. 3. U.S. A person who returns to the East after having previously left to settle or seek fortune in the West. Also occasionally: formerly cultivated grass or land which has reverted to wildness following the departure of a such a person. Now historical. ΚΠ 1859 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 18 June Farewell to the ‘go-backs’; they have had their day, and soon will be forgotten. 1884 A. P. Hills Tales Colorado Pioneers iv. 29 The army of ‘go-backs’ grew greater than the advancing host, and they did many a tale unfold, declaring there was not a thimbleful of gold in the country. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 30 July 3 Vagrant grass, called by the natives in the West ‘go-back’, because it has gone back from the breaking-up process that was given by the settlers years ago. 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 105 Go-back, a historical term..for someone who returned East after failing to make a go of it in the West. 4. Something intended to be put back or restored to a previous place or position. ΚΠ 1898 Gleanings Bee Culture 15 Jan. 43/2 Fills supers with ‘go-backs’ (unfinished sections). 1915 C. C. Miller Fifty Years Among Bees 209 These supers of sections that are to go back to the bees for finishing are called ‘go-backs’. 1921 E. Jessup & C. Blanchard Anal. Work Juniors in Banks 24 Take ‘return checks’ called returns or ‘go-backs’ to various banks of the city. 1971 C. Bukowski Post Office i. xi. 16 I walked over to the case and threw down the wet pouch full of go-backs, miscased mail and pickup mail. 2011 R. Yañez Cross over Water 104 The cassette ended up tossed in a cart of go-backs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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