[f. BACK adv.]

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  1.  BACKGAMMON; a ‘game’ at backgammon.

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1718.  Cibber, Non-juror, I. A Coquett’s Play with a serious Lover, is like a Back-game at Tables, all open at first.

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1753.  in Mrs. Barbauld, Richardson (1804), III. 68. I must now as they say at Tables, endeavour to play a good back game.

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  2.  Chess.

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1800.  Hoyle’s Games, 132. As his king may retire to his bishop’s square, the second Back-game will show how to proceed in this case.

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  3.  A return-game.

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