Usually means: Alternative option when others fail.
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  1. fallback: Merriam-Webster
  2. fallback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fallback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fallback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fallback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fallback, fallback: Wordnik
  7. fallback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fallback: Wiktionary
  9. fallback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fallback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fallback: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fallback: Dictionary.com
  13. Fallback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. fallback: Rhymezone
  15. fallback: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fallback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. fallback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. fallback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fallback: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fallback: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of falling back.
noun:  A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
noun:  (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
noun:  Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
adjective:  That can be resorted to as a fallback.
verb:  Misspelling of fall back. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.]

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