"brush back" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushes back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushing back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "brush back (third-person singular simple present brushes back, present participle brushing back, simple past and past participle brushed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
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            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter)."
      ],
      "id": "en-brush_back-en-verb-iUjsYEOd",
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "brushback pitch",
          "brushback pitch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, baseball) To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism."
      ],
      "id": "en-brush_back-en-verb-fkhIzocC",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, intransitive) To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brush back"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushes back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushing back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brush back (third-person singular simple present brushes back, present participle brushing back, simple past and past participle brushed back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Baseball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "brushback pitch",
          "brushback pitch"
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        "(transitive, baseball) To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter)."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, intransitive) To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brush back"
}