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back green
back green n.
Brit. 
/ˌbak ˈɡriːn/
, /ˌbak ˈɡriːn/U.S. /ˌbæk ˈɡrin/
, /ˌbæk ˈɡrin/Scottish English /ˌbak ˈɡrin/
Scottish a rear garden or yard; (in later use esp.) the communal open space at the rear of a tenement building./ˌbak ˈɡrin/ΚΠ
1799 Acct. Proceedings (Soc. Propagating Gospel at Home) 28 Came to Dingwall. Preached in a back-green to between 400 and 500 people.
1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 18 Mar. 49/2 There are various things about a house..which appear to the wife as each the most cardinal of all cardinal points. One of these, for instance, is a back-green.
1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 1185/2 At each end of the building there is a fire-escape iron stair which leads to the back green.
2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 3 Mar. 25 Holyrood's public petitions committee heard descriptions of green slime dripping off close walls, rats roaming back greens and infestations of cockroaches and bedbugs.
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- bone-laced
- bone-laziness
- bone-lazy
- bone-like
- bone-manure
- bone-on
- bone-picker
- bone-piercing
- bone-pointing
- bone-polisher
- bone-rattling
- bone-seeker
- bone-seeking
- bone-setter
- bone-setting
- bone-shaking
- bone-shaped
- bone-squid
- bone-studded
- bone-thin
- bone-thinning
- bone-throwing
- bone-tipped
- bone-tired
- bone-turquoise