Definition of "back-to-back" [back-to-back]

• Consecutive; successive: back-to-back performances; back-to-back home runs. (adjective)

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• "As another season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week threatens to speed by, I like to think that I've given renewed meaning to the expression "back-to-back.""
• "Irish fraud police are investigating short-term "back-to-back deposits" of about EUR7.4 billion made between Anglo Irish and another lender, Irish Life & Permanent Group Holdings PLC ILO.DB, in September 2008."
• "More How Economists in Europe Define a Recession The Source: Draghi's Neighbor Fires Warning Shot The Source: Spain Faces an Interesting Quarter German Retail Sales Rise U.K. Mortgage Approvals Dip Recession is commonly defined as back-to-back quarters of contraction."