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noun
- cheek, back-talk
- quotations
- "Looky here -- mind how you talk to me; I'm a- standing about all I can stand now -- so don't gimme no ."<br>— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, w:Mark Twain, Mark Twain
- "Say -- if you give me much more of your I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head."<br>— The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, w:Mark Twain, Mark Twain
verb (sass, es)
- talk, talk back
- quotations
- "The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to back, and the minute they was fairly at it I lit out and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer, for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again."<br>— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- "But, good land! what did he want to back for? You see, it couldn't do him no good, and it was just nuts for them."<br>— Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain
- (British English, slang) know, be aware of, meet, have sex with. From the popular w:Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams novel, w:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- The novel provides this example of its use:
- Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch-hiking slang, as in "Hey, you that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
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