Definitions for backhoe

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backhoe back·hoe

Spelling: [bak-hoh]

IPA: /ˈbækˌhoʊ/

Backhoe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in backhoe (abcehko).

Definitions for backhoe

noun

1. a hydraulic excavating machine consisting of a tractor having an attached hinged boom, with a bucket with movable jaws on the end of the boom.

Origin of backhoe

First recorded in 1940-45; back¹ + hoe

Examples for backhoe

Behind the church there was a cemetery, and at the far end of it a backhoe had just begun digging the grave.

First they set fire to a backhoe and a car, burning them to shells.

Leon drove the van down a dirt trail and stopped near the backhoe, which had finished its digging and was now just waiting.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy looked on as Pollard began to disinter the president with the backhoe.