Meaning

2 senses
  1. (US, derogatory, historical, sometimes)An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.

  2. A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.

Origin

Deverbal from go back.

Deverbal from go back.

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Forms

plural: gobacks
Singulargoback
Pluralgobacks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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