bacover

English

Blend of back +‎ cover

bacover (plural bacovers)

(dated, fandom slang) Back cover of a book, magazine or similar medium.
- 1951 November, Hoffman, Lee, “The Ether Jiggles”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎, number 1, page 3:
  Gleefully we perused those two copies, noting such achievements as a five-color bacover (counting black).
- 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II‎, Eavesdroppings:
  They are a sort of bacover-quote, a lot of "-actual incredible things fans have said to one another."

“bacover” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 13.

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