Backwhack (v.): To prefix with a backslash.

The symbol \ is called backslash; the act of "escaping" a special character by prefixing it with a backslash is called backwhacking. A simple example is how you put double quotes into a C string literal, which uses that symbol as a terminator: "this is \"quoted\"."

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