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refback

noun

Etymology

Blend of referer + back.

  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 refback — “referer + back”

Definitions

  1. The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or…

    The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or proxy servers bringing traffic to a web page.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for refback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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