Backs

British  

/ bæks /

plural noun

1. the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges

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Example Sentences

Backs to the wall, utter defiance, questions posed and questions answered.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

When Alex Backs and Kelsey Loch started looking to buy their first house near Indianapolis last fall, they found lots of homes to choose from within their $375,000 budget.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Under the headline “Britain Backs Labour,” the Times reported how “Tony Blair and the Labour Party swept to a victory of historic proportions in Britain’s national election on Thursday, ending 18 years of Conservative control.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

“This cannot be sustained,” said Volker Backs, the company’s managing director.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2022

They are all tall and well shap'd; they walk well, but when they curt'sy, do it in such an aukward manner, that one would think their Backs were in danger of breaking.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von