Usually means: Consecutive, without interruption or pause.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word back-to-back:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. back-to-back: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. back-to-back, back-to-back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back-to-back: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. back-to-back, back-to-back: Collins English Dictionary
  5. back-to-back: Vocabulary.com
  6. back-to-back: Wordnik
  7. back-to-back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. back-to-back: Wiktionary
  9. back-to-back: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. back-to-back: Dictionary.com
  11. back-to-back: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. back-to-back: Rhymezone
  13. back-to-back: Free Dictionary
  14. back-to-back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. back-to-back: Dictionary/thesaurus
  16. back-to-back: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back-to-back: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back-to-back: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Sequential or consecutive.
adjective:  With one's back facing that of somebody else.
adjective:  (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
adjective:  (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
adjective:  (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
noun:  A house with a party wall at the rear.
noun:  (oil industry) One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
adverb:  Alternative form of back to back [With one's back facing that of somebody else.]

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