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backstab

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back·stab  (bkstb)
tr.v. back·stabbed, back·stab·bing, back·stabs
To attack (someone) unfairly, especially in an underhand, deceitful manner: "Some backstab each other and threaten to settle their differences with a punch" (Thomas Boswell).
backstabber n.
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Dorothy young, jig-jigging her iron shovel, Barracking a pile of lumpy coals Carted up by one Thomas Ashburner, Her toothache so ablaze the carter's name Goes unremarked as every jolt and jag Backstabs through her wrist-bone, neck-bone, jaw-bone.
A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth by Heaney, Seamus / Harvard Review
As temporary as some BFFs turn out to be, it might make sense to create some new acronyms: BFRN (Best Friend Right Now) or BFUSBY (Best Friend Until She Backstabs You).
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