take-backsies

A form of takesies-backsies — Synonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).

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Meanings

nountake-backsies sg or pl
  1. alternativepluralsingularAlternative form of takesies-backsies.

    AANG Can I fight the guy with the axe, instead? KING There are no take-backsies in my kingdom.

    2005 February 17, John O'Bryan, “Act Three”, in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Show #105, Book One: Water, Chapter Five: "The King of Omashu", page 20
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    Or I could’ve tried the truth from a different angle. I could’ve told Jeffrey it felt heavenly when he touched my cheek, but Stuie and I were getting married in less than two weeks and there was no take-backsies.

    2003 November (indicated as 2004), Lisa Lieberman Doctor, “Thursday, August 12, 1971”, in The Deflowering of Rhona Lipshitz, Oakland, Ore.: Elderberry Press, →ISBN, page 25

    So don’t ask me to throw it all away. I don’t want any take-backsies. I don’t want to go backward.

    2013 September 29, Jacquelyn Frank, chapter 16, in Forged (The World of Nightwalkers; 4), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 220
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APA

take-backsies. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/take-backsies

MLA

“take-backsies.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/take-backsies. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “take-backsies,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/take-backsies.

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