(Britain, colloquial) Often smug expression of triumph or happiness.

To be revived after dying. / To return after being presumed dead. / (chiefly sports, idiomatic) To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.

Alternative spelling of backburn

Alternative spelling of backburn

(mnemonic) Used to advise how clocks are altered for daylight saving time: local time goes forward in the spring, and back in fall (autumn).

A slap. / (idiomatic, figuratively, by extension) A display of disrespect or scorn.

plural of back catalogue

US spelling of back catalogue

(idiomatic) Through and through; thoroughly; entirely.

(nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind.