back·hoe

[bak-hoh]
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.
Also, back-hoe, back hoe.


Origin:
1940–45; back1 + hoe

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Word Origin & History

backhoe
by 1928, from back + hoe.
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Backhoe is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.
Example sentences
For example, a bank gives a contractor a loan to buy a backhoe.
Get out the shovel, the backhoe, or whatever tool is necessary and clear some
  space in your house or apartment.
They landed in an marsh and there was no way they would let a backhoe in to
  move them.
The compliance officer observed a portable fire extinguisher located behind the
  driver's seat in the cab of a backhoe.
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