English Online Dictionary. What means backed? What does backed mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Etymology 1
From back (verb).
Verb
backed
- simple past tense and past participle of back
Etymology 2
From back (noun) + -ed.
Adjective
backed (not comparable)
- (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- (in combination) Having specified type of back.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
- asset-backed securities
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- lesser black-backed gull
- razor-backed
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Backed”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.