See backpedal on Wiktionary
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"(intransitive) To step backwards."
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"word": "faire marche arrière"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "peruuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "ottaa takapakkia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "rétropédaler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "faire marche arrière"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "faire machine arrière"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "einen Rückzieher machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
],
"word": "zurückziehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "zurückrudern"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wycofywać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wycofać się"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "voltar atrás"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "desdizer-se"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement",
"word": "mudar de opinião"
}
],
"word": "backpedal"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"en:Cycling"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back",
"3": "pedal"
},
"expansion": "back + pedal",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From back + pedal.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "backpedals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "backpedal (plural backpedals)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "2013, Greg Colby, Football: Steps to Success, page 120:",
"text": "He should come out of his backpedal and turn to run only when a receiver threatens to get behind him in the zone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 August 4, Talia Day, “No more ‘Big Ben’: City leader loses 145 pounds”, in CNN:",
"text": "They were doing 50 yards of lunges, 50 yards of backpedals, sprinting for 50 yards and power walking one mile around the track to help him reach his target heart rate.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of backpedalling (in any sense)."
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈbækˌpɛdəɫ/"
},
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{
"word": "back-pedal"
}
],
"word": "backpedal"
}
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