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goat |
any of various agile four-legged animals that produce milk, having hollow horns with a backward curve, rough and usu. straight hair, and a short tail. [1/5 definitions] |
half gainer |
a dive in which the diver, facing forward, executes half of a backward somersault, thus entering the water headfirst and facing the diving board. |
hammerlock |
a hold in which a wrestler pulls one arm of an opponent backward and twists it upward. |
handspring |
a complete somersault in which a person flips forward or backward onto the hands and ends with a springing return to the standing position. |
hartebeest |
any of several large African antelopes characterized by a brownish coat and long backward-curving horns. |
have sternway on |
of a vessel, to move backward. |
hillbilly |
(informal) a person who comes from a remote rural area, esp. from the mountainous region of the southern United States; often, a person considered to be primitive or backward because of this residence or origin. [1/2 definitions] |
hyperextension |
the extension or bending backward of a limb, esp. at the elbow or knee, beyond its normal limits. [1/2 definitions] |
ibex |
any of a variety of mountain goats of Eurasia and North Africa, esp. those that have long, backward-curving horns. |
jerkwater |
(informal) unsophisticated, backward, or insignificant. |
jet1 |
an airplane powered by engines discharging a backward flow of heated gases to create forward propulsion. [1/5 definitions] |
jet engine |
an engine that develops thrust by the backward expulsion of a jet of fluid or gaseous products of combustion, used esp. in aircraft. |
kick |
a violent backward thrust, as of a gun when fired. [1/14 definitions] |
kickback |
an abrupt, usu. backward motion of a machine or tool that has struck something forcefully. [1/2 definitions] |
lateral |
in football, a sideways or backward pass to another player. [2/4 definitions] |
lateral pass |
in football, a sideways or backward pass. |
moonwalk |
a dance step in which the dancer appears to be moving forward but is in fact moving backward. [1/2 definitions] |
palindrome |
a word, number, phrase, or longer expression with letters or numbers in the same order both backward as forward, such as "level," "1881," and "Able was I ere I saw Elba". |
pawl |
a pivoting lever or tongue, or a sliding bolt, that is made to catch in the notches of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion or assist forward motion. |
pitchout |
in football, an underhanded lateral or backward pass from the quarterback to one of the running backs. [1/2 definitions] |
reciprocate |
to move forward and backward in alternation. [1/4 definitions] |
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