saddleback
IPA: sˈædʌɫbæk
noun
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- (geology) An anticline.
- (UK) The great black-backed gull.
- (New Zealand) The bird Philesturnus carunculatus.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- A raccoon oyster.
- The harp seal.
- The larva of the bombycid moth.
verb
- (slang) To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
adjective
- saddle-backed
adverb
- saddle-backed
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Examples of "saddleback" in Sentences
- Am I the only one who snickers when they hear "saddleback"?
- A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described.
- In the wild, emperor tamarins often live side by side with saddleback tamarins.
- The livestock comprises one saddleback sow with seven piglets, 15 chickens and some bees.
- And now … without further delay … the winning definition of "saddleback" … by a gaping margin … definition number 5.
- The saddleback was a diplodocoid more than a hundred feet long, named for the sage-and-rust markings that broke up its vast profile.
- I shed my pack, kept my weapon and started running full out up the saddleback, then something tugged at my right side, i had caught a round A through and through gunshot wound.
- "saddleback" -- the greater black-backed gull of the text-books -- knowing the hand of man to be against it for its raids on game and poultry, would keep at a respectful distance.
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