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backspace 

to erase words with a keyboard
it it equipped with most keyboards in America
unless of course you decided to take out keys out of your key board.
tommy:i was typing a cussword and my mom walked by

suffery:did you get caught?

tommy:no.good thing i have backspace!

suffery:yay
backspace by suffery June 11, 2009
Words you can keep

backspace 

A person who revises/alters something that they have made, built, or written - only to end up with a result that is worse than what they started with.
I panicked and backspaced on the sandcastle I was building! Shit!
backspace by PhDInAss September 25, 2014

backspace 

okay backspace, where did you say he went yesterday?
backspace by galen December 11, 2004

backspace 

backspace is use in a computer. It is basically known to removeletters from a computer

in other word its a keyboard key

it is located on to of the enter button(1)
you were meant to type "apple" but you typed "applw" (somehow) to revert this you simply press simply backspace
backspace by helu312 April 17, 2019

backspace 

backspace by balls October 6, 2003

backspace 

When someone says something they didn't mean to say they can say "backspace" and whatever they said before must be imediately forgotten, as if it was never said.
...wait up, backspace!!
backspace by Margaret Millen May 2, 2008

backspace contest 

When to people are typing in a chat at the same time, and both backspace immediately once they see the other person is typing. The person to backspace the slowest (the chat message says they are still typing) is usually the one forced to send the next message.
Jake_H: Hey Jane I just wanted to say I liked spending time with you a lot last night and that naught stuff was great.

Jane103: I really like you too, we should get together soon cause our last hook up was so much fun, however it was kind of weird...

(Both are typing) Both backspace contest immediately to see what the other one has to say.
backspace contest by Kurt the flirt February 17, 2012
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