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back⋅stretch

[bak-strech]
–noun
the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
Compare homestretch.


Origin:
1830–40; back 1 + stretch
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back·stretch   (bāk'strěch')   
n.  The part of an oval racecourse farthest from the spectators and opposite the homestretch.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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