bareback

English

Etymology

bare +‎ back

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəbæk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɚbæk/

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Adjective

bareback (not comparable)

1. Without a saddle.

   bareback riding

2. Without a condom.

   bareback sex

3. (dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
   • 1937 March 30, Bareback Bathing Ban Off, The New York Times:

     ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

Adverb

bareback (not comparable)

1. Without a saddle.

   I can ride a horse bareback.

2. (slang) Without a condom.

   We had sex bareback.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:condomless

Coordinate terms

• saddleback

Translations

without a saddle

• Bulgarian: неоседлан (neosedlan)
• Finnish: satulatta, ilman satulaa
• French: à cru (fr)
• German: ungesattelt
• Hungarian: szőrén
• Italian: a bisdosso, a pelo
• Navajo: tʼáá dilkǫǫhgo
• Polish: na oklep
• Portuguese: no pelo
• Russian: неосе́дланный (ru) (neosédlannyj)
• Spanish: a pelo (es)
• Swedish: barbacka (sv)

without a condom

• Finnish: paljaalla
• French: bareback (fr)
• German: bareback
• Greek: ακάποτα (akápota)
• Portuguese: no pelo
• Spanish: a pelo (es)

Verb

bareback (third-person singular simple present barebacks, present participle barebacking, simple past and past participle barebacked)

1. (intransitive, slang) To engage in penetrative sex without a condom.
2. (transitive, slang) To sexually penetrate without a condom.

   In this video, the big guy gets to bareback the little guy.

Derived terms

• barebacker
• barebacking

Translations

To have sex without a condom

• Afrikaans: bloots
• Finnish: panna paljaalla (colloquial), harrastaa seksiä ilman kondomia

Noun

bareback (plural barebacks)

1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
   • 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:

     Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.