back-load
Americanverb (used with object)
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Past studies have found that protein consumption above ~30g/meal is not used efficiently, and that people commonly back-load protein intake with the majority consumed in the evening meal at a level far above this 30g level.
From New York Times
At a little distance a young man was grasping by the ears and nose a donkey with a back-load of bracken, and a misplaced ardour for the chase.
From Project Gutenberg
He started forth like a “plumed knight” chanting his war song and whooping along the way to instill courage into his braves, each of whom carried a back-load of arrows and a couple of well-strung bows as his weapons of war, and expected to share in the glory of a great victory.
From Project Gutenberg
The reason is because I have a pretty decent back-load of my own to carry.
From Project Gutenberg
There was something almost heart-warming in the bit of parting badinage; something to make the young engineer feel figuratively for the knife with which he had resolutely cut around himself to the dividing of all hindrances, sentimental or other, on a certain wretched day years before when he had shouldered his life back-load.
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