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backhoe

or back-hoe, back hoe

[ bak-hoh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a hydraulic excavating machine consisting of a tractor having an attached hinged boom, with a bucket with movable jaws on the end of the boom.

Origin of backhoe¹

First recorded in 1940–45; back ¹ + hoe

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy looked on as Pollard began to disinter the president with the backhoe.

First they set fire to a backhoe and a car, burning them to shells.

Leon drove the van down a dirt trail and stopped near the backhoe, which had finished its digging and was now just waiting.

Behind the church there was a cemetery, and at the far end of it a backhoe had just begun digging the grave.

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