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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the typewriter key used for back spacing [syn: backspace key, backspace, backspacer] v
1: hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; "To erase, you must backspace"

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb Date: 1911 to move back a space in a text with the press of a key II. noun Date: 1983 an instance of backspacing; also the key pressed in backspacing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. move a typewriter carriage etc. back one or more spaces.