How to pronounce “backpedal”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
• (intransitive) To step backwards.
• (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
• [Noun]
• An act of backpedalling (in any sense).

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