Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
back-to-back \back-to-back\ adj.
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occurring immediately one after the other; consecutive. back-to-back home runs
Syn: consecutive.
oriented with the backs toward each other, and sometimes touching.
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) sequential or consecutive. adv. With one's back facing that of somebody else. n. A house with a party wall at the rear.
WordNet
adj. one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn: consecutive]
Usage examples of "back-to-back".
Ken remembered the two of them standing back-to-back, fighting for their lives against too numerous assailants.
But I'd like to be friends, if you would, and I mean friends like my people mean it: fair dealing, back-to-back in a row with outsiders, but if I think you're wrong I'll say it to your face.
He'd rather have watched a back-to-back rerun of Carin Coldae classics, but felt he should exercise self-discipline.
There was a kind of buttress sticking out of the mill wall, might have been the chimneystack, I'm not sure, but the back-to-backs had been built flush up against it so there was no way through.
The full London moon hung over her shoulder, riming with pink and gold the slates of the houses which fanned across the Easterlies towards Ashington in back-to-back rows.
They were rookeries of narrow streets and crowded back-to-back houses, with noisesome alleys running between them.
A hundred years ago the land had produced citrus and cotton, but back-to-back winter freezes had prompted a switch to more durable cropswatermelon, cabbage and crookneck squash.
A hundred years ago the land had produced citrus and cotton, but back-to-back winter freezes had prompted a switch to more durable crops—watermelon, cabbage and crookneck squash.
And going back, Strongbow with his magnifying glass for seeing through the ages and old Menelik with his underground musicales and Crazy Cohen with his back-to-back dreams in sevens, the three of them feasting away the last century in an oasis called the Panorama.
Dennis Dinsmore has been working back-to-back high-profile homicide cases in Oregon, and running in marathons when he has rare moments off.
The sheriff popped up to the second baseman, but then Floyd Mondragon and Nick Rael hit back-to-back doubles, a kid named Ruben Tafoya walked, Albie Betchel was hit (unintentionally) by a pitched ball, and Horsethief Shorty singled.
We had more than twenty million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate and smallest welfare rolls in thirty years, the lowest crime rate in twenty-five years, the lowest poverty rate in twenty years, the smallest federal workforce in forty years, the first back-to-back surpluses in forty-two years, seven years of declining teen pregnancies and a 30 percent increase in adoptions, and 150,000 young people who had served in AmeriCorps.