take-backsies

English

Noun

take-backsies sg or pl

  1. Alternative form of takesies-backsies.
    • 2003 November (indicated as 2004), Lisa Lieberman Doctor, “Thursday, August 12, 1971”, in The Deflowering of Rhona Lipshitz, Oakland, Ore.: Elderberry Press, →ISBN, page 25:
      Or I could’ve tried the truth from a different angle. I could’ve told Jeffrey it felt heavenly when he touched my cheek, but Stuie and I were getting married in less than two weeks and there was no take-backsies.
    • 2005 February 17, John O'Bryan, “Act Three”, in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Show #105, Book One: Water, Chapter Five: "The King of Omashu", page 20:
      AANG Can I fight the guy with the axe, instead? KING There are no take-backsies in my kingdom.
    • 2013 September 29, Jacquelyn Frank, chapter 16, in Forged (The World of Nightwalkers; 4), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 220:
      So don’t ask me to throw it all away. I don’t want any take-backsies. I don’t want to go backward.
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