Backspaces

/ˈbækˌspeɪsɪz/ verb

Third-person singular present tense of backspace; presses the backspace key to delete characters or moves a cursor backward.

From 'backspace,' itself a 20th-century computing compound. The verb form is regularized with -s for third-person singular.

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