flat back

noun

1. a book spine presenting a completely flat surface.

2. a book bound with such a spine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flat back¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The season started with a flat back four, which changed into a back five at half-time of the second game of the season, at Real Sociedad.

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Instead of her favoured flat back four, England set up with a back three - and it worked almost instantly.

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Dismay streaked up Purgatory Hill, his ears flat back against his head, the whites of his eyes wild and terrified.

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Among the wreckage of the the Moarri family's flat back in Antakya, two glass pomegranates sit perfectly intact on a shelf.

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Mr. Nosie, 64, said his ancestors inhabited Oak Flat back in the mid-19th century before U.S. soldiers herded them to the reservation where the tribe is still based.

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