Definition of dial back

dial back    

verb - transitive

• to reduce in frequency or intensity.

  You need to dial back the drinking, man.

  Dial it back a notch, hitting on the women.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to decrease, reduce.

  Last edited on Jan 03 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'to decrease, reduce':
notch down	Definitions include: to reduce.
chill out	Definitions include: to calm down.
chill	Definitions include: to relax; "hang out".
take down a notch	Definitions include: to decrease.
dial down	Definitions include: to reduce.

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'back':
back	Definitions include: large buttocks.
back 40	Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
back *sswards	Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards".
back at the ranch	Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent.
back at you	Definitions include: and the same to you.
back-catalog	Definitions include: obscure.
back-catalogue	Definitions include: obscure.
back door	Definitions include: the anus.
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
back-door trots, the	Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea.
back end	Definitions include: the anus.
back forty	Definitions include: a place that is far away.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
back off	Definitions include: large buttocks.
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Other terms relating to 'dial':
Babe-dial	Definitions include: When a small child accidentally calls people using their parent's phone. Similar to a butt-dial.
butt-dial	Definitions include: to accidentally call a person on a cellphone that's in one's pocket.
dial	Definitions include: a person's face.
dial down	Definitions include: to reduce.
dialed	Definitions include: extreme approval, great, awesome, fine or meaning to be perfect, precise or better.
dialed-in	Definitions include: To be very proficient at a given activity.
dial the porcelain phone	Definitions include: to vomit.
dial tone	Definitions include: a bore, dullard.
dial-up	Definitions include: to make or get something.
drunk-dial	Definitions include: to make a phone call while drunk.

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