backshot

American  

[bak-shaht] / ˈbækˌʃɑt /

noun

• backshots
  plural

1. a still photo or video sequence taken from behind the subject.

2. Sports. a stroke or throw that sends the ball behind the player making it.

3. a shot, such as from a firearm or a thrown object, that hits the target in the back.

4. Slang. a position for sexual intercourse in which one partner is penetrated from behind by the other.

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adjective

1. having been shot at from the rear.

2. (of a waterwheel) powered by flowing water that strikes the back of the wheel just below the top, as opposed to one where the water strikes the middle of the back or flows above the wheel to strike the front of it just below the top.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• backshots
  plural

Example Sentences

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backshot

With one hand he backshot the bar, which rushed into its chamber with a roar and crash as of a great house when it falls, and with the other he drew back the door.

From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish