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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj|head=[[back]]-[[to]]-back|-}}

# [[sequential|Sequential]] or [[consecutive]].
#: {{ux|en|Ruth and Gehrig hit '''back-to-back''' home runs.}}
#: {{ux|en|They sat through two '''back-to-back''' movies.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=February 12, 2011
|author=Les Roopanarine
|title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke
|work=BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/9391008.stm
|page=
|passage=An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham '''back-to back''' Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.}}
# With one's [[back]] facing that of somebody else.
# {{lb|en|physics|by extension}} [[emerge|Emerging]] in exactly [[opposite]] directions.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=R. Fiore; Alessandro Papa; Igor Ivanov; Jacques Soffer|title=Diffraction 2008: International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics|publisher=Amer Inst of Physics
|passage=Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not  any longer '''back-to-back''' and the energy balance is distorted.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=S. Söldner-Rembold|title=Photon '99: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon, Including the 12th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions, Freiburg, Germany, 23-27 May 1999
|passage=This produces two '''back-to-back''' jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive  high energy cross-section.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Thomas Schörner-Sadenius|title=The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319150017|page=392
|passage=Photons at leading order are produced '''back-to-back''' with an associated parton  with nearly identical transverse momenta.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1992|author=David Shaw Brown|title=A Comparison of High Transverse Momentum Direct Photon and Neutral Pion Events in Negative Pion and Proton-nucleus Collisions at 31.5 GeV Center of Mass Energy
|passage=In the rest frame of the <math>\pi^0</math> the  photons emerge '''back-to-back''' isotropically.}}
# {{lb|en|of a house}} Having a [[party wall]] at the rear.
#: {{ux|en|We lived in a row of '''back-to-back''' houses.}}
# {{lb|en|poker slang}} {{syn of|en|wired||being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down}}.

====Translations====
{{trans-top|sequential or consecutive}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|peräkkäinen}}, {{t+|fi|perättäinen}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|consecutivo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|оди́н за одним}}, {{t+|ru|друг за другом}}, {{t+|ru|поочерёдно}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|consecutivo}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|arka arkaya}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|послідо́вний}}
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{{trans-top|with one's back facing somebody else's back}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|seläkkäinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|dos à dos}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|ghąąjįʼ}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|спина́ в спи́ну}}
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{{trans-top|(''physics'') emerging in exactly opposite directions}}
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{{trans-top|(house) having a party wall at the rear}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|espaldera|f}}
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{{checktrans-top|adverbs or adjectives?}}
* Romanian: {{t-check|ro|spate în spate}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|sırt sırta}}
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===Adverb===
{{en-adv|-}}

# {{alt form|en|back to back}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2021 December 15|author=Paul Clifton|title=There is nothing you can do|journal=RAIL|issue=946|page=37|text=A ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations '''back-to-back''' a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[house]] with a [[party wall]] at the rear.
# {{lb|en|oil industry}} One of a pair of [[rig]] workers who are [[roster]]ed on alternately.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Paul Carter|title=Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs|publisher=Allen and Unwin|location=Crows Nest|page=101|text="He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his '''back-to-back''' on the rig in the morning." ("'''Back-to-back'''" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.}}

{{cln|en|reduplicated coordinated pairs}}