right back

noun, prep_phrase, adv — 4 senses

right back

noun

1

Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports A defender who normally plays on the right side of the field.

Related terms: centre back, center back, left back

right back

prep_phrase

Etymology Clipping of right back at you.

1

Slang Synonym of back at you.

Thank you, all! I love you right back.2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes SHOCK appearance at Grammys 2024 amid battle with incurable stiff-person syndrome - as she presents historic award to tearful Taylor Swift”, in dailymail.co.uk:

right back

adv

1

In an immediate or quick return to an original position.

You come right back here this instant!
We're right back where we started from.

2

In direct reciprocation or repayment of an action or gesture; in kind.

And just to test them out, when those boys asked her again if she'd take them in her shed she teased them right back, “Sure, if you guys want to clean up my stable it's okay by me! I'll come and inspect!”1974, Adele Wiseman, chapter 4, in Crackpot, →ISBN, page 79:
As much as Kyle pretended to ignore her, she pretended to ignore him right back.2008, Robyn Freedman Spizman, Mark Johnston, chapter 6, in The Secret Agents Strike Back, →ISBN, page 27:

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