Usually means: Return to previous point, reconsider.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. backtrack: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backtrack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backtrack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backtrack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backtrack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backtrack, backtrack: Wordnik
  7. backtrack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backtrack: Wiktionary
  9. backtrack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backtrack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backtrack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backtrack: Dictionary.com
  13. backtrack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. BackTrack (magazine), BackTrack, Backtrack (band), Backtrack (disambiguation), Backtrack (film), Backtrack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. backtrack: Rhymezone
  16. backtrack: Free Dictionary
  17. backtrack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. backtrack: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. backtrack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. backtrack: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. backtrack: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. backtrack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Backtrack: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. backtrack: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See backtracked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  the act of backtracking
verb:  To retrace one's steps.
verb:  To repeat or review work already done.
verb:  (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
verb:  To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
verb:  To go back on or withdraw a statement.

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