Definition of back-and-forth
: discussion 1, give-and-take;
also
: exchange 1
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First Known Use of back-and-forth
1941
back-and-forth Synonyms
Synonyms
argument, argumentation, colloquy, confab, confabulation, conference, consult, consultation, council, counsel, debate, deliberation, dialogue (also dialog), discussion, give-and-take, palaver, parley, talk;
Related Words
bull session, chat room, forum, meeting, powwow, roundtable, seminar, skull session (also skull practice), symposium, talkathon;
chat, conversation, rap, words;
back and forth
Definition of back and forth
: backward and forward;
also
: between two places or persons
Examples of back and forth in a Sentence
The chair rocked back and forth.
The children were shuttled back and forth between school and home.
Recent Examples of back and forth from the Web
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Thus the image of my misfit soul, batted back and forth between the forces of good and evil.
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Your brain pings back and forth between reading them as language and looking at them as forms.
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Played his first season of pro hockey in 2017-18. Bounced back and forth between Grand Rapids and Toledo (Detroit’s second-tier farm team) the first couple months.
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In the following weeks, sketches went back and forth between Markle and Keller, with the pair establishing a fast friendship through texts, phone calls and brief meetings.
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The back and forth between Clay and Mr. Bolan is just one instance of the series trying to redefine how the first season was interpreted.
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In conversation [the network] has to go back and forth between understanding what the user says and speaking itself.
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Culture can be seen in the multitude of animal figures and people shape-shifting back and forth between one another, an idea common in Native Northwest Coast cultures, and which would have been visible where Bartow lived.
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In the coming weeks, more attacks will fly back and forth between the Evans and Abrams campaigns.
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First Known Use of back and forth
1613
BACK-AND-FORTH Defined for English Language Learners
back and forth
Definition of back and forth for English Language Learners
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: toward the back and then toward the front : backward and forward
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: between two places or people
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