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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
backspace
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Allow for backspace at the start of each shot.
▪ Bear in mind, when you are starting a shot, that you should allow for the backspace time.
▪ It has an irritatingly small backspace key and I think it has a horrible plastic feel, but this is purely subjective.
▪ It is possible to make approximate allowance for backspace by releasing the source-machine off play-pause about one second late.
▪ Remember to allow for the backspace time before starting each new shot or you may miss part of the action.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
backspace

backspace \backspace\, backspacer \backspacer\n. 1. The key on a typewriter or other keyboard used for back spacing.

Syn: backspace key.

backspace

backspace \backspace\, v. i. In typing text, to press the backspace key so as to reposition the carriage or cursor on the previous space.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
backspace

also back-space, 1899, in reference to keyboarding, from back (adv.) + space.\n\nWe have had the pleasure of examining one of the 1899 model Hammond typewriters, with the new back-space key. This new feature is certainly an improvement in the machine.

["The Phonetic Journal," March 11, 1899]

Wiktionary
backspace

n. 1 The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards. 2 (context computing English) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards. vb. 1 (context computing English) To remove a character behind a cursor. 2 (context computing English) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.

WordNet
backspace

v. hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; "To erase, you must backspace"

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Wikipedia
Backspace

Backspace is the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back the text after that position by one position.

Backspace (Portland, Oregon)

Backspace (sometimes Backspace Cafe) was a coffee shop, gallery, Internet café, and all-ages music venue located in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

Usage examples of "backspace".

Sarah saw no point in doing something that would obviously be edited out when the people involved backspaced into their normal lives, while Mike felt that any pleasant experience was worth exploring, no matter how illusory it might turn out to be.

He probably should have, he thought when a wild-eyed street preacher in a dirty brown trench coat stood up at the head of his subway car and began shouting about the evils of backspacing, but the sudden decrease in riders as people looped back to take another car at least gave him room to stretch out.

That would be reason enough to backspace, he supposed, but he knew what happened to people who gave in to every impulse that came a long.

For example, when you make a mistake in typing, it's nice to hit the backspace key and not see ^H^H^H on your screen.

Tregare checked his list against Backspace Key's and found less than a dozen colonies unaccounted for, and fifteen ships.

He found the backspace key, deleted the Z, and carefully moved his forefinger to A.

The Wilshire policemen knew that he had only been a clerk typist in that army and not a tank commander as he hinted and they often whispered that Captain Drobeck never retreated but backspaced lots of times.