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dial it back

It means to reduce the strength or intensity of something.
eg It was very hot in my home, so I dialled back the heating system.

eg Tom is very angry, and his friend says 'Hey, Tom, dial it back a bit'.
by mario66chef December 7, 2013
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Backrooms

The Backrooms are a concept first showcased in a post on 4chan, where one user described a realm made up of nothing but infinite, empty, interconnected rooms with horrible yellow wallpaper and loud fluorescent lights. The concept has now been expanded upon and revamped numerous times over.

The Backrooms, in general, are a series of liminal spaces designed to evoke a feeling of eeriness and nostalgia. They are designed to be a form of psychological horror, with the emptiness and eerie feelings as the main point of the Backrooms. They take elements from everyday life, things that one would not ordinarily pay attention to, and takes them out of context to create something uncanny. Something empty. They are designed to feel surreal, dream-like. Often, the structure and physical design of these liminal spaces are completely nonsensical, as if they were not deliberately made, which, of course, only adds to the psychological horror of the Backrooms.

If you'd like a more in-depth explanation, take a look at Solar Sands' video on YouTube on the subject, titled, "Liminal Spaces".

There's also a Fandom site for the Backrooms, at backrooms.fandom.com.
Oh, look! It's Level 37 of the Backrooms!
by ParallaxAstro December 8, 2022
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Spinning Back

When you and your homies hit the opp then roll back through the spot to make sure the job finished
Don't play wit me boy you know we bout to be spinning back.
by AReal103 September 25, 2021
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Disney Back-Up

Coming home from any vacation and keep on getting circular or very round bullets of shit until you have this massive motherload of a fuck come out and you have the squirts for the rest of the time. Most common in Disney Locations due to the massive sorts of food and re-used crap in the food and water.
Mom: Hows my baby timmy...
Coroner: He died from Disney Back-Up
Mom: ....
by MaZe000 March 29, 2008
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Taking the back door

"Oh man....she got so drunk she asked me to take the back-door in..after she showered, that is..."
by Kevie October 13, 2003
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Back in my day

A phrase typically used by old people to criticize younger people or to justify themselves.
Kids today are always on their phones, but back in my day we were only allowed to play with a wooden stick!
by kho25 March 6, 2022
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The Backrooms

If you're not careful and you "noclip" out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby because it sure as hell has heard you.

The Backrooms are an alternate dimension, but one that is not like many other alternate dimensions in the universe. While others seem to be pocket dimensions that are linked to our own reality, the Backrooms runs deep INSIDE our own reality, meaning there is no physical way to enter it. Rather, a person enters the Backrooms when in a state of deep despair, or during sleep.
Man I dreamed about The Backrooms, it was so trippy.
by HarrisonWells September 22, 2020
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