Crossword clues for silverback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silverback \Sil"ver*back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The knot.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context zoology English) A mature male of the several species of chimpanzees and gorillas, so named from the silver streaking on its back. 2 (context informal by extension English) A dominant older human male.
WordNet
n. an adult male gorilla with gray hairs across the back
Wikipedia
A silverback is an adult male gorilla. The word may also refer to
Sports teams:
- Atlanta Silverbacks, an American professional soccer team
- Cincinnati Silverbacks, an indoor soccer club
- Miami Valley/ Dayton Silverbacks, a former professional indoor football team
- Quad Cities Silverbacks, an International Fight League team
- Salmon Arm Silverbacks, a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team
Athletes, nicknamed "silverback":
- James Harrison (American football), a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers,
- Seth Petruzelli, mixed martial arts fighter
- Trent Williams, an offensive tackle for the Washington Redskins
- Jason Dunstall, former Australian Rules full-forward for the Hawthorn Hawks
Other:
- The original 2G iPhone (1st generation) was nicknamed silverback for its aluminium back plate.
- Silverback, a common name for plants in the genus Luina
- Silverback Cargo Freighters, a cargo airline
- Silverback Gorilla, an album by rapper Sheek Louch
- Silverback Games, a Canadian video game developer.
- In 2016, a Silverback gorilla under the name of Harambe was killed in a Zoo. People have begun referring to the incident in the slang, "The Silverback Shooting", and may reference the issue with the word Silverback.
Usage examples of "silverback".
A hundred miles from that sighting, a silverback was found with its legs ripped off.
But prowling like a silverback cat caged in the cellar was another absolute.
The thing crouched within her like a stalking silverback cat, bright and patient.
He was perhaps seventeen, gray-eyed, black-haired, darkly bronzed, and he moved on the torchlit dancing ground with the sudden supple grace of a silverback cat.
It was one Fa had often sung to them when they were little, about a kyyo who tricked a silverback cat into sharing her lair.
She glanced out the windows at the swirling white landscape, fretful as a silverback cat trapped in a den not her own.
The madwoman who spun with the speed of a silverback cat to fend her off, and clawed at her as they plunged to the floor in a tangle of limbs and corrosive magic.
It followed the course of the Gross Tar like an imprecise echo, changing its name as it went, becoming Wynion Way, then Silverback Street.
He was no longer a Capuchin monkey, but a full-grown silverback gorilla.
The costermongers on Silverback Street were yelling and pointing at the fat dirigible uncoiling its dangling rigging to the earth.
A finger or an ear chopped from the carcass of the last silverback gorilla?
The silverback male shook himself, seeming to snap out of a trance, taking another step back.
I suppose if silverback gorillas can have a tryst in the mist now and then, so can he, but it comes as a shock to imagine him cuddling up to anything but a mutual fund.
Without warning, one of the oldest silverbacks spread its wings and cut loose with a terrifying shriek.
The faces of the staff now reflected a greater diversity, too, and investments reflected a certain moral and political viewpoint the silverbacks had not shared.