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stay back

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stay back (from something)

to keep one's distance from someone or something. Stay back from the lawn mower! This is dangerous. Stay back!

See also: back, stay

stay back

v.

1. To refrain from approaching. Used chiefly as a command: Stay back!—I've got a knife.

2. To repeat a grade level in school: The teacher suggested that our child stay back a year.

See also: back, stay