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Backside vs Backslide - What's the difference?

backside | backslide |

As a noun backside

is the side of something that is opposite the front.

As a verb backslide is

to regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.

backside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The side of something that is opposite the front.
    • The backside of the building faced an alley, and was covered in grime and scrawled graffiti.
  • The buttocks.
    • ''After riding the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside .
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.

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    backslide

    English

    Verb

    English irregular verbs
  • To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
  • :He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide .
  • To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
  • :Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines. — Oxfam press release, 24 June 2002