back-cut

Front cuts must always be allowed and back-cut always disallowed—even if "double-frontsies" creates a backsie.

Illogical But Not Unjust Jonathan V. Last 2011

So Suzy proposes that she cut in front of Amanda, but later allow Amanda to cut in front of her, thus using two front-cuts to achieve the single back-cut that playground law justly forbids.

Illogical But Not Unjust Jonathan V. Last 2011

I got yelled at in practice last week for getting back-cut.

Underdawgs David Woods 2010

    I'm three-quarters through the back-cut when the tree begins to lean wrong, falling toward my truck in slo-motion, and I already see the bed crushed when Donny heaves on the guide-rope, barely managing to swing the trunk just past the trailer hitch so it's only branches scratching the truck and no real weight hitting the bed.

Three Ways of the Saw 2008

Peter swung to face Sopespian, slashed his legs from under him and, with the back-cut of the same stroke, walloped off his head.

Archive 2008-05-01 Arevanye 2008

Peter swung to face Sopespian, slashed his legs from under him and, with the back-cut of the same stroke, walloped off his head.

Hammer and Tongs Arevanye 2008

I'm three-quarters through the back-cut when the tree begins to lean wrong, falling toward my truck in slo-motion, and I already see the bed crushed when Donny heaves on the guide-rope, barely managing to swing the trunk just past the trailer hitch so it's only branches scratching the truck and no real weight hitting the bed.

Three Ways of the Saw Matt Mullins 2008

When a kid gives up a back-cut basket, I want it to upset him.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Bobby Knight Discusses His Past at Indiana and His Hopes for the Future - September 27, 2000 2000

He back-cut another French skirmisher, then ran on to the moon-cast shadow of the next empty barracks block where a huddle of Riflemen were protecting Miranda.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

He kicked the man out of the ranks, and back-cut his heavy sword at a French soldier who was trying to drag a musket and bayonet out of a redcoat's hand.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995