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• back page
  back page

  noun

  the last or last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; back matter.
• back-page
  back-page

  adjective

  relating to or occurring on the last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, and thus not especially important.

back page

¹ American  

[bak payj] / ˈbæk ˈpeɪdʒ /

noun

1. the last or last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; back matter.

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back-page ² American  

[bak payj] / ˈbæk ˈpeɪdʒ /

adjective

1. relating to or occurring on the last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, and thus not especially important.

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I had secured my story through sources, not from him direct, so to hear him on the phone was a relief as that back page was now whirling around a press.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

It looked hinky, and on the back page, in fine print, I learned that the mail was from a lender unaffiliated with my mortgage company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

On the back page, I found the Prayer of St. Francis:

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023

In college, I even ripped out the back page of Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” signed a pledge to have no more than one child and mailed it in.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022

Bas ordered that the book in question be passed to him, and when it was, he flipped to the back page, took out a pencil and started writing on it.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Eileen credits the Sheffield Star and Sheffield Telegraph newspapers for her big break into the industry, securing her first back-page lead with a photo of a city gymnast in late 1970s.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

Los Angeles magazine is another good resource, particularly Chris Nichols’ back-page Ask Chris feature, which almost always serves up something about the city’s past that I never knew before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Indistinguishable in look and heft from a dime-store cash-in, it even has back-page ads for hard-boiled reads like “Serpico” and Elmore Leonard’s “The Switch.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021

In September 1971, reporter Pat Horne of the Boston Record American had a big, back-page scoop.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2020

The paper, one morning, after describing appearances of Charles-Norton in Vladivostock, Paris, and Timbuctoo, had slid from her knees to the floor, when her eyes lit upon an advertisement on the up-turned back-page.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James