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noun

Building Trades. a wood or metal plate serving as a backing for a structural member.

Armor. a piece of plate armor for protecting the back: worn as part of a cuirass.

Origin:
1650–60; back¹ + plate¹

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backplate
noun
plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass

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Back plate is always a great word to know.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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