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Definition: Drop Back |
Drop BackVerb1. Take position in the rear, esp. of a military formation or team sporting event, "The defender dropped back behind his teammate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Drop Back |
| Specialty definitions using "drop back": Agecroft device. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Guatemala | Although new investments in electrical power generation systems are expected to continue, imports are expected to drop back to around the U.S. $90 million-level in 2001, assuming that no extraordinary imports occur as in 2000. This estimate would represent an increase of about 11% percent over 1999 levels. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "drop back": drop back into a habit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "drop back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbetem pas (draggle, drop behind, fall behind, hang back, lag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurückfallen (drop behind, fall back, fall behind, move down, reflect, relapse, return, revert, to fall back, to relapse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξεμένω πίσω (drop behind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opdray ackbay reveni la un obicei vechi (drop back into a habit). (various references) falla tillbaka (come home). (various references) gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, draw back, drop behind, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), geride kalmak (be posterior to, drag behind, drop behind, fall astern, keep back). (various references) відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: backdrop. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-k-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: board, broad, brock, carbo, carob, cobra, copra, croak, dobra. | |
-4 letters: apod, arco, back, bard, bark, boar, bock, bora, brad, capo, carb, card, cark, carp, coda, cord, cork, crab, crap, crop, darb, dark, dock, dopa, dork, dorp, drab, drop, kbar, okra, orad, orca, pack, pard, park, pock, pork, prao, proa, prod, rack, road. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-k-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: backdrops, backdropt, packboard. | |
+2 letters: packboards. | |
+3 letters: backdropped. | |
+4 letters: backdropping. | |
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