back number

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Noun[edit]

back number (plural back numbers)

  1. A back issue of a magazine, etc.
    • 1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
      Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers.
  2. Anything considered old-fashioned.

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