Definition of "go backwards"

go backwards

verb
third-person singular simple present goes backwards, present participle going backwards, simple past went backwards, past participle gone backwards
1. To decline or deteriorate; to get worse.
2. (obsolete, slang) To defecate; to visit the privy.
  Quotations
  [O]ne day he expressed his desire of going backwards with such natural imitation of his purpose, that every body in the room firmly believed he had actually overshot himself, and fortified their nostrils accordingly.
  1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]