bareback

English

Etymology

From bare +‎ back.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛəbæk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɚbæk/
  • Audio (Australia):(file)

Adjective

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    bareback riding
  2. (slang, sex) Without a condom.
    bareback sex
  3. (dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
    • 1937 March 30, Bareback Bathing Ban Off, The New York Times:
      ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

Translations

Adverb

bareback (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle.
    I can ride a horse bareback.
  2. (slang) Without a condom.
    We had sex bareback.

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Verb

bareback (third-person singular simple present barebacks, present participle barebacking, simple past and past participle barebacked)

  1. (ambitransitive, equestrianism) To ride without a saddle.
  2. (ambitransitive, slang, sex) To have sex (with someone) without using a condom.

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Noun

bareback (plural barebacks)

  1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
    • 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:
      Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
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