: an excavating machine having a bucket that is attached to a rigid bar hinged to a boom and that is drawn toward the machine in operation
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The Washington Post first reported the news of the demolition, saying that constructions crews were using a backhoe to rip through and demolish a portion of the White House's East Wing.
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Plow it all up with a bulldozer, excavator and backhoe; slightly build up the banks and landscape it with boulders, rocks and gravel, with occasional shallow pools for mosquito fish.
—Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
This would be a good time to own a backhoe business.
—Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Remember when Trump threw healthy school lunches to the curb, then had the White House vegetable garden plowed under so deep that backhoe crews hit the Epstein files?
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2025
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Plow it all up with a bulldozer, excavator and backhoe; slightly build up the banks and landscape it with boulders, rocks and gravel, with occasional shallow pools for mosquito fish.
—Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
This would be a good time to own a backhoe business.
—Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Remember when Trump threw healthy school lunches to the curb, then had the White House vegetable garden plowed under so deep that backhoe crews hit the Epstein files?
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Backhoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backhoe. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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backhoe
noun
back·hoe
-ˌhō 
: a large machine that digs into the earth with a metal scoop drawn toward the machine
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