back story

See also: backstory and back-story

English

Noun

back story (plural back stories)

  1. Alternative spelling of backstory
    • 2013 March 1, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire):
      Actually, that's not, uh... that's not really a back story, it's just expositional flashback. It doesn't, uh, have any childhood trauma, it's doesn't really inform who he is, it's not... it's just flashback. There's a difference. It's subtle, but there's a difference.
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