backwards

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adv back

adverb. with the inside where the outside should be

adverb. back

adverb. in utter disorder

adjective. reversed

1510s, from backward with adverbial genitive. Figurative phrase bend over backwards is recorded from 1901.

Up and down, backwards and forwards, inside and out, and all hands around.

Steps which move forwards or backwards, shall be taken to be in the fourth Position.

There are three ways of doing this, forwards, backwards, and sideways.

He knew them, he would have informed you, backwards and forwards.

And unless we secure it, there will be only a march backwards.

She staggered to the table, and he bent her backwards across it.

His spies went daily backwards and forwards with details about me.

They are going sidewise, and backwards, and every way, and are all entangled together.

And of course we have only two directions, forwards and backwards.

He was comin' in backwards, tryin' to wave off the gang that was follerin' him.