bareback

English

Etymology

bare + back

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛəbæk/
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Adjective

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    bareback riding
  2. Without a condom.
    bareback sex
  3. (dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
    • 1937. "Bareback Bathing Ban Off", March 30, The New York Times
      Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

Adverb

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    I can ride a horse bareback.
  2. (slang) Without a condom.
    We had sex bareback.

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Verb

bareback (third-person singular simple present barebacks, present participle barebacking, simple past and past participle barebacked)

  1. (intransitive, slang) Engage in sex without a condom.
  2. (intransitive, slang, particularly sex among men) Engage in anal sex without a condom.
  3. (transitive, slang, particularly sex among men) To anally penetrate without a condom.
    In this video, the big guy gets to bareback the little guy.

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Noun

bareback (plural barebacks)

  1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
    • 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:
      Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
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