backstory

[bak-stawr-ee, ‐stohr-ee] Origin

back·sto·ry

[bak-stawr-ee, ‐stohr-ee]
noun, plural back·sto·ries.
1.
a narrative providing a history or background context, especially for a character or situation in a literary work, film, or dramatic series.
Also, back story.
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Backstory is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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backstory
c.1990, from background story.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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