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redback

noun

Etymology

Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as redback — “red + back”

Definitions

  1. A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.

    • 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
    • Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.

  2. A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere

    A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.

  3. the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA