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BACKHANDER
Definition of BACKHANDER
noun
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
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Where it comes from
From backhand + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BACKHAND · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BACKHANDER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BACKHANDER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AABCDEHKNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start BACKHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found BACKHANDER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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