Back
Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Like
Like verb - To wish to have.
How words are described
| human | human back | human like |
| old | old back | old like |
| high | high back | high like |
| special | special back | special like |
| Other adjectives: similar, short, complete, regular, alien, simple, actual, entire, big, evil, little, bad, criminal, new, few, occasional, several, comic, numerous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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At times, like when a character is giving another something like a makeover, that character's back fills up the screen while s/he is doing it.
Source: Back Blocking -
They almost always start where one character chucks a pillow at a more serious character out of boredom or just to provoke them, the second chucks it back and like a Food Fight, and it snowballs from there.
Source: Childish Pillow Fight -
A character watching this episode comments on the fact that people in real life (like the dead Gai Daigouji and Tsukomo Shiratori) don't come back from the dead.
Source: Back from the Dead
Cite this Source
Like and Back. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/like
Back & Like. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/like>.
Like or Back. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/like.
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