See watch one's back in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "watches one's back",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "watching one's back",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "watched one's back",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "watched one's back",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "watch one's back (third-person singular simple present watches one's back, present participle watching one's back, simple past and past participle watched one's back)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "48 52",
"word": "cover one's back"
},
{
"_dis1": "48 52",
"word": "watch one's step"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English predicates",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the kind of dive bar where you better watch your back",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remain wary of being attacked from behind by surprise; to remain watchful to prevent a predictable attack from being a surprise."
],
"id": "en-watch_one's_back-en-verb-JQtvarFY",
"links": [
[
"wary",
"wary"
],
[
"attacked",
"attack#Verb"
],
[
"behind",
"behind"
],
[
"surprise",
"surprise"
],
[
"watchful",
"watchful"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) To remain wary of being attacked from behind by surprise; to remain watchful to prevent a predictable attack from being a surprise."
],
"tags": [
"literally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the kind of office gossip that prompts you to watch your back",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be wary of betrayal or an otherwise unexpected attack."
],
"id": "en-watch_one's_back-en-verb-JOMNeAoK",
"links": [
[
"wary",
"wary"
],
[
"betrayal",
"betrayal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) To be wary of betrayal or an otherwise unexpected attack."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "48 52",
"word": "check one's six"
},
{
"_dis1": "48 52",
"word": "watch one's ass"
}
],
"word": "watch one's back"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English predicates",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "watches one's back",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "watching one's back",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "watched one's back",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "watched one's back",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "watch one's back (third-person singular simple present watches one's back, present participle watching one's back, simple past and past participle watched one's back)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "cover one's back"
},
{
"word": "watch one's step"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the kind of dive bar where you better watch your back",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remain wary of being attacked from behind by surprise; to remain watchful to prevent a predictable attack from being a surprise."
],
"links": [
[
"wary",
"wary"
],
[
"attacked",
"attack#Verb"
],
[
"behind",
"behind"
],
[
"surprise",
"surprise"
],
[
"watchful",
"watchful"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) To remain wary of being attacked from behind by surprise; to remain watchful to prevent a predictable attack from being a surprise."
],
"tags": [
"literally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the kind of office gossip that prompts you to watch your back",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be wary of betrayal or an otherwise unexpected attack."
],
"links": [
[
"wary",
"wary"
],
[
"betrayal",
"betrayal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) To be wary of betrayal or an otherwise unexpected attack."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "check one's six"
},
{
"word": "watch one's ass"
}
],
"word": "watch one's back"
}
Download raw JSONL data for watch one's back meaning in English (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (ce0be54 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.