back-to-back

adverb

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Pronunciation: /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/

Sequential or consecutive.
“Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.”
“They sat through two back-to-back movies.”
With one's back facing that of somebody else.
Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
“Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.”
“This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.”
Having a party wall at the rear.
“We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.”
Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).

Alternative form of back to back.
“There are five double-bogie A1A-A1A British-built diesel-electric locomotives, which are normally worked back-to-back under the control of a single driver.”
“A ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.”

A house with a party wall at the rear.
One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
“"He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.”