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What does backstab mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.
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You don't have to gossip or backstab the person in the next cube to get ahead.
One of those bandits was to backstab me, and you stopped him so I could get rid of him.
The women fall out and make up, laugh and cry, support and backstab one another with dramatic regularity.
I was listening as the member for Toronto Centre got weepy, got teary-eyed in his defence of the former leader, the one that he helped backstab.
Superheroes who were once allies backstab each other and the end could be nigh.
I was good but I never had that capacity to backstab the people I care about.

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