(programming) The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.

(dance) In performance dance, a freestanding 45-degree lean, with a special shoe, anchored to the floor by a support bolt locking to the dance shoe.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean over backwards

present participle of lean over backwards

simple past tense and past participle of lean over backwards

(in the meat industry, on product packaging, euphemistic) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.

(in the meat industry, on product packaging, euphemistic) Lean finely textured beef.

Alternative form of lean finely textured beef

A device that adsorbs nitrogen oxides produced by a lean-burn engine, such as a diesel.

plural of lean nitrogen oxide trap