silverback
IPA: sˈɪɫvɝbæk
noun
- (mammalogy) A mature male gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
- (informal, by extension) A dominant older human male.
- Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.
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Examples of "silverback" in Sentences
- Silverback please stop reverting.
- A silverback is an adult male gorilla.
- I'm sure Silverback will agree with this.
- A silverback gorilla living at the Gardens.
- Silverback doesn't even bother with the research.
- "I base him off of a silverback or a lion," Momoa says.
- Silverback had no familiarity with the context of events.
- But the term "silverback" is not only applied to gorillas.
- It was removed by an anon but promptly restored by Silverback.
- Silverback, consider the fact that correlation is not causation.
- Silverback, the overwhelming consensus is to leave in the bulletpoint.
- The Dynamo moved to Cincinnati and renamed itself the Silverbacks in 1995.
- I want the gorilla, she says, pointing to the rafters at a pink gorilla the size of a Rwandan silverback.
- They live in families, each headed by an adult male called a silverback because of its distinctive coloring.
- But the zoo's gorillas already are in three "families," each made up of one sexually mature male, called a silverback, and several females and their offspring.
- There's nine gorillas in this group and every gorilla group is leaded by an adult male called a silverback, the silverback right over there, the distinctive coloring on his back.
- "There's Lenny 'Apples' Appleton, 'Mad' Dickie Barrett and Micky 'Silver' Darrell, named because he looks like a silverback gorilla," chuckles Brian Holmes, a veteran who has carted fish for the merchants here in east London for 21 years.
- When I see those TV commercials of silverback Baby Boomers sprinting with vintage surfboards toward ever-higher-yielding money-market funds, I feel both Boomer derision and a gnawing dread that my own funds are not similarly accruing (and in fact they are not — but maybe, to offset the losses, Brian Grazer will option my book?).
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