With backs close together or touching, as in In the first and second rows of the bus, the seats were back to back, an unusual arrangement . This term also can be applied to persons who stand facing in opposite directions and with their backs touching. [Mid-1800s]

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Consecutively, one after another, as in I'm exhausted; I had three meetings back to back . [Mid-1900s]

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