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Vacked vs Backed - What's the difference?

vacked | backed |

As verbs the difference between vacked and backed

is that vacked is past tense of vac while backed is past tense of back.

As an adjective backed is

put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

vacked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vac)

    • vac

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A vacation.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 324:
    • It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac .
  • (informal) A vacuum cleaner.

    • Derived terms

    * (vacuum cleaner) minivac

    Verb

    (vack)
  • To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
  • * 2010 , Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)
    • I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

    Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    backed

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (back) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (back)

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
    • He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed ; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
  • (in combination) Having specified type of back.
    • a high-backed chair
    sway-backed
    red-backed shrike
  • (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
    • asset-backed securities

    Derived terms

    * asset-backed

    References

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