Definition of "backpedals" [backpedals]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal. (verb)

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• "She maybe backpedals or breast strokes or something and says she messes up everything and then whines that when she gets out of the house, everyone's going to hate her more."
• "Of course,as she madly backpedals, Chua protests that she wrote a memoir, not a parenting manual."
• "He replies with that “okie dokie” pointer finger to the nose gesture, then backpedals to rejoin his flock."