(sometimes proscribed) Synonym of hark back (“to allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event)”)

Alternative spelling of backstairs

(rugby union) Collectively, the backs (the 2 wings, fullback, outside centre and inside centre).

Alternative form of cutback

(idiomatic, transitive) To replay a recording.

(transitive) To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency.

(transitive) To return (something) to its origin. / (transitive, figuratively) To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past.

(informal) To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold back

simple past tense and past participle of hold back