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fallback
also
fall-back
, as a noun, "a reserve," 1851, from verbal phrase, from
fall
(v.) +
back
(adv.), which is attested in the sense of "retreat" from c. 1600. As an adjective, from 1767 as a type of chair; 1930 as "that may be used in an emergency."