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back to back

consecutive - one after the other - successive
back to back by Aaadrian July 17, 2006

Back To Back, Salem! 

An expression of teamwork, used when there are two people on a team, in any kind of event, against two or more people. Comes from the Xbox 360 game Army Of Two, where there are certain "Back To Back" sequences. During these sequences, the two characters go back to back and start shooting, in order to easily dispatch their enemies, who are usually terrorists. When this happens, sometimes one of the characters, Tyson Rios, shouts "Back To Back, Salem!", Salem being the last name of the other character. This term can be used anytime to imply teamwork.
During a paintball match, everyone except me and Payden were out. I heard him shout "Back To Back, Salem!", and we met up and continued to win the game against 4 other opponents.

back-to-back 

When you're totally surrounded by an enemy, and there's no escape, a trusted friend stands with his/her back touching yours, so you both can fight in efforts to protect each other's back. This can be done physically as well as verbally. The unity and dedication of the two coming together in this formation to act as one is a tactical defense whatever the battle may be.
At the Hot Gates (in the Hellespont), there were only two Spartans left against the Immortals who had encircled them. The two stood back-to-back defiantly in complete confidence of each other's capabilities and dared the enemy to attack, thus saving Western Civilization.
back-to-back by Kit Carson January 16, 2010

back to back

Two DJs playing together. While one DJ is spinning a record, the other one is picking a new track. As they normally store their records behind them this usually makes the DJs face backwards on each other.
DJ Tinkywinky and DJ Dipsy played back to back (b2b) last night.
back to back by haileselassie December 7, 2010

Back to Back Dutch Rudder 

When you and another guy go back to back and dutch rudder eachother, therefore it is totally not gay.
Me and Curtis totally Back to Back Dutch Rudder'd last night...it was hot.

Back to back babies 

When you go on maternity leave for a year to keep your job security. And then get pregnant in that same year again and then return to work without saying anything. Once you start showing you ask for maternity leave again to keep your job security in place. This is usually done if you are a lazy manager or employee.
Employee #1: “oh great! Alicia is having back to back babies just so she can even put this job on her resume!”