'back off' definitions:

Definition of 'back off'

verb

Move backwards from a certain position; "The bully had to back down" [syn: back up, back off, back down]

verb

Remove oneself from an obligation; "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved" [syn: chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out]

Words containing 'back off'

Back,
Backed,
Backing,
Backs,
To back down,
To back out,
To back up,
back down,
back out,
back to back,
back up,
back-to-back,
Back Mountain,
Back and forth,
Back blocks,
Back charge,
Back charges,
Back door,
Back eccentric,
Back filling,
Back pressure,
Back rest,
Back slang,
Back stairs,
Back step,
Back stream,
Full back,
Half back,
Hark back,
Hop back,
Jack back,
Paneled back,
Pump Back,
Quarter back,
Skew back,
Snap back,
Spring back,
Switch back,
Throw back,
To back a rope,
To back a warrant,
To back against the field,
To back an anchor,
To back and fill,
To back the field,
To back the oars,
To back the sails,
To back water,
To be on one's back,
To bear back,
To break the back,
To bring back,
To call back,
To draw back,
To fall back,
To fall back on,
To get back,
To give back,
To go back on,
To hang back,
To hark back,
To keep back,
To put back,
To see the back of,
To snap back,
To throw back,
To turn back,
To turn the back,
To turn the back on,
Wash back,
Water back,
Watteau back,
Window back,
answer back,
back and fill,
back away,
back brace,
back breaker,
back burner,
back channel,
back circle,
back country,
back end,
back entrance,
back exercise,
back fire,
back judge,
back matter,
back number,
back of beyond,
back pack,
back porch,
back room,
back saw,
back scratching,
back seat,
back spread,
back street,
back talk,
back tooth,
back way,
beat back,
bounce back,
bring back,
buy back,
call back,
carry back,
ceding back,
choke back,
come back,
come back at,
coming back,
cut back,
date back,
die back,
double back,
draw back,
drive back,
drop back,
fall back,
fat back,
feed back,
fight back,
financial backing,
flanker back,
flash back,
force back,
from way back,
get back,
get back at,
give back,
go back,
go back on,
go back over,
hang back,
hold back,
keep back,
kick back,
knock back,
lean back,
look back,
move back,
pat on the back,
pay back,
paying back,
play back,
pull back,
push back,
put back,
rear back,
relation back,
roll back,
running back,
send back,
set back,
shrink back,
sink back,
sit back,
slide back,
slip back,
stand back,
strike back,
take back,
talk back,
think back,
thrust back,
toss back,
trim back,
turn back,
win back,
Back Mountain, PA,
Back-fire,
Back-firing,
Behind one's back,
Broken-backed,
Bunch-backed,
Camel-backed,
Diamond-back,
Hog's-back,
Huckle-backed,
Lute-backed,
Pump Back, OK,
Razor-backed,
Roach-backed,
Round-backed,
Saddle-backed,
Stiff-backed,
Sway-backed,
To claw one on the back,
To fall back upon,
To lie on one's back,
To put one's back up,
To take the back track,
To turn the back on one,
To turn the back upon,
Warty-back,
back-and-forth,
back-blast,
back-channel,
back-formation,
back-geared,
back-number,
break one's back,
call-back,
dust-back,
high-backed,
hollow-back,
ladder-back,
ladder-backed,
laid-back,
lobster-backed,
low-backed,
move back and forth,
pig-a-back,
set-back,
spiny-backed,
straight-backed,
to get one's back up,
Mackerel-back sky,
black-backed gull,
blue-back mullet,
broken-backed hogged,
dust-back pitch,
ladder-back chair,
leather-backed tortoise,
mortgage-backed security,
paper-back book,
red-backed lemming,
red-backed mouse,
red-backed sandpiper,
Back-acting steam engine,
Back-action steam engine,
eastern red-backed salamander,
great black-backed gull,
western red-backed salamander,
red-coated lobster-backed,
arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome