Usually means: Old-fashioned, stubbornly conservative person.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. mossback: Merriam-Webster
  2. mossback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mossback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mossback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mossback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mossback, mossback: Wordnik
  7. mossback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. mossback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. mossback: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Mossback, mossback: Dictionary.com
  11. Mossback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mossback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. mossback: Rhymezone
  14. Mossback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. mossback: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mossback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mossback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. mossback: Wiktionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mossback: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See mossbacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mossback)

noun:  (informal) Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”)
noun:  (informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
noun:  Senses relating to animals.
noun:  A turtle that, because of its age, has a growth of algae on its back
noun:  A common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina).
noun:  (fishing) Synonym of mossyback (“a fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back”)
noun:  A largemouth bass or moss bass (Micropterus salmoides).

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