Meaning of backshot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shot that sends something backwards, such as a shot that sends the ball behind the player making it.
2. A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to an earlier point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
3. A shot in the back.
4. To physically attack or ambush from the behind of another person.
5. A shot taken from behind the subject.
6. A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style.
   Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang
7. An act of anal sex.
   East-Midlands, dated, vulgar

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Examples

“"Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive.”

“Who knows but they might come and fire a backshot at us, before we could get home; and then the devil take us, if the chance wouldn't be that some of us would'nt get home at all, at all.”

“If anybody tries a backshot, they will be blasted into dust.”

“If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!”

“Backshot of power station fully working.”

“Set in the 1930s in rural Nova Scotia, the film opens, in colour, with a backshot of the filmmaker — all that is evident are her dreads — typing its title and the details of its setting into a laptop computer.”

“In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good backshot inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good backshot up inside her abdomen to keep her quiet/calm).”

“And by the way, it also incites some backshot (a Caribbean term for a well-known sex position) and spanking tendencies during sexual activity for some.”

“Yeah bitch! I got a backshot and that shit felt good as hell!”

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