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English
Etymology
From back + tick.
Pronunciation
Noun
backtick (plural backticks)
- (computing) The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.
2000, Lincoln D Stein, Network Programming with Perl:The backtick acts like the double-quote operator.
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Translations
the symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark
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