saddleback

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From saddle +‎ back.

Noun

saddleback (plural saddlebacks)

1. A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
2. A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
3. (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
4. Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
5. A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
6. (geology) An anticline.
7. (UK) The great black-backed gull.
8. (New Zealand) The bird Philesturnus carunculatus.
   • 1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67:

     The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

9. A variety of domestic goose.
10. A raccoon oyster.
11. The harp seal.
12. The larva of the bombycid moth.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• saddleback caterpillar
• saddleback clownfish
• saddleback crow
• saddleback gull
• saddleback gunnel
• saddlebackite
• saddleback jackal
• saddleback pig
• saddleback seal
• saddleback shrew
• saddleback tamarin
• saddleback toad

Translations

a NZ bird

• Dutch: zadelrug (nl) m
• Maori: tieke

Adjective

saddleback (not comparable)

1. saddle-backed

Adverb

saddleback (not comparable)

1. saddle-backed

Etymology 2

From Saddleback Church of Lake Forest, California. Coined in a contest held by columnist Dan Savage, in response to its support for California Proposition 8.

Verb

saddleback (third-person singular simple present saddlebacks, present participle saddlebacking, simple past and past participle saddlebacked)

1. (slang) To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:saddleback.

Hypernyms

• poophole loophole
• buttfuck
• take it up the ass/take it up the arse