back to front

Speech parts

1. back to front - Adjective

2. back to front - Adverb

Meaning

back to front

Turned so that the back is now at the front.
I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front.

back to front

Reversed, with the back now at the front.
The classic VW Beetle is a back to front car, with the engine at the rear.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

backward inversely contrariwise rearward reversely backwards by heart rearwards inside out

Antonyms

half forth onward en route forwards onwards
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Examples

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. Keith Emerson

There's lots of space already on the field. Brazil have to come a little bit tighter, Ian. They can't be so expansive, from back to front. Otherwise? The Germans will cut them to shreds. Steve McManaman

A prudent man will read the letter from back to front. Turkish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

back to back ticket back to basics back to form back to nature back to our regularly scheduled program back to square one