back slang

noun

a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards

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How to use back slang in a sentence

It is called back-slang, and simply consists of spelling (more or less accurately) words backwards.
The Criminal | Havelock Ellis
For instance, woman in the back slang is nammow, and nammows is women.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten
I'd ha' run it off into back slang, and ha' done it most willing and free.
Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 | Various
Variety is the charm of nature, we are told; and in this particular, if in no other, back slang and nature approach each other.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten
From these examples the apt student may fairly judge how to form his own back slang to his own liking and that of his friends.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten

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