takesies-backsies

English

Alternative forms

  • takesies backsies, takesie-backsies, takesie backsies

Etymology

From take back +‎ -sies.

Pronunciation

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Noun

takesies-backsies pl (plural only)

  1. (childish) Synonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).
    • 2017, Sarah Dessen, Once and for All, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 164:
      “If I win, I get to decide who you go out with next. And it can be anybody, you can't dispute or refuse, no takesies backsies.”
      “Takesies backsies? What are you, twelve?” I said. “And what about if I win?”
    • 2023 June 1, Noor Al-Sibai, “Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will”, in Neoscope‎[1], archived from the original on 1 June 2023:
      It sounds like dystopian fiction that biotech companies could play takesie-backsies with patients' implants […] but the reality is we've already crossed into that world.
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