dos a dos

Meanings

Noun

• A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
• A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.

Adverb

• Back to back.

Origin

• From French dos à dos, from dos (from Latin dorsum) and à (from Latin ad