Of a motion, sequence, etc.: backwards; reversed.
The Satanic message can be unmasked by playing the song in reverse.
Of a motor car: in reverse gear.
When the officer approached the car, the driver put it in reverse and drove away.
I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. Bing Crosby
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it. José Rizal
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. Helmut Jahn
The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt. Lupe Fiasco
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. Jacques Maritain