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1. childishpluralsingularSynonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).

   It sounds like dystopian fiction that biotech companies could play takesie-backsies with patients' implants […] but the reality is we've already crossed into that world.

   2023 June 1, Noor Al-Sibai, “Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will”, in Neoscope, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023

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   “If I win, I get to decide who you go out with next. And it can be anybody, you can't dispute or refuse, no takesies backsies.” “Takesies backsies? What are you, twelve?” I said. “And what about if I win?”

   2017, Sarah Dessen, Once and for All, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 164

   Synonyms: backsie