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ˈspring-back
Also spring back, springback.
1. [f. spring n.1 22.]
a. A folder with a spring clip incorporated in the spine to hold the papers placed in it; also, the clip itself.
b. = loose back s.v. loose a. 9. Also attrib.
1895Montgomery Ward. Catal. Spring & Summer 247/1 Music Folio, imitation leather, spring back. 1919‘Etienne’ Strange Tales from Fleet 64 The stupendous and well-filled ‘spring-back’, replete with bills, a few receipts, and reams of official correspondence. 1923, etc. [see loose back s.v. loose a. 9]. 1948G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop vi. 162 Bourne opened the spring-back correspondence file. 1982P. D. James Skull beneath Skin xli. 332 The archives were bound in springback folders.
2. [f. spring v.1] The capacity to spring flexibly back into position after subjection to pressure. Freq. attrib. or as adj. Also fig.
1945Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 2 Mar. 19/3 It [sc. a type of compressed wood] can be made.. with negligible springback tendencies. 1970Motoring Which? July 116/1 All the arm-type mirrors we included were either spring-back or collapsible. 1972A. Amin tr. Ahmad's No Harvest but Thorn x. 98 She leapt over the spring-back wooden fence like a young mouse-deer startled by a pulut fox. 1973J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. iv. 87 Whenever a material possesses significant elasticity, as in cold working, there is difficulty with spring back. 1975N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 55/2 The finished fence..has a feeling of controlled flexibility and springback to true that augurs well for its stock-holding qualities. 1977Time 31 Jan. 40/1 Charles Schultze agrees that the first quarter ‘will show a pretty good springback’ from the recent economic pause. |