Usually means: Regress to previous, worse state.
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  1. backslide: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backslide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backslide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backslide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backslide: Vocabulary.com
  6. backslide: Wordnik
  7. backslide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backslide: Wiktionary
  9. backslide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backslide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backslide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backslide, backslide: Dictionary.com
  13. backslide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backslide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Backslide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. backslide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. backslide: Rhymezone
  18. Backslide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. backslide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. backslide: Free Dictionary
  21. backslide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. backslide: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. backslide: Legal dictionary

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  1. Backslide: Easton Bible

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  1. backslide: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Backslide: Skydiving Glossary

(Note: See backslid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (backslide)

verb:  (intransitive) To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
verb:  (transitive) To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
verb:  (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
noun:  A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.
noun:  (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.

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