bareback

1. not comparableWithout a saddle.

   bareback riding

2. not comparableslanglifestyleWithout a condom.

   bareback sex

3. datednot comparableWithout a shirt; shirtless.

   ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

   1937 March 30, Bareback Bathing Ban Off, The New York Times

1. not comparableWithout a saddle.

   I can ride a horse bareback.

2. not comparableslangWithout a condom.

   We had sex bareback.

present singular third person barebacks · participle present barebacking · participle past barebacked · past barebacked

1. ambitransitiveequestrianismTo ride without a saddle.
2. ambitransitiveslanglifestyleTo have sex (with someone) without using a condom.

plural barebacks

1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.

   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.

   1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91