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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

backed adj.¹

[either f. lying on one’s back, or, according to B.E. and then Grose (1785), f. being supported on the backs of those who carry one’s coffin; SE backed, supported at the back, underpins the latter ety.]

dead.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 201: Backt, dead; as, he wishes the old man backt, that is, he longs to have his father on six men’s shoulders; or as, his back’s up, that is, he is in a fume, or angry.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: back’ed, dead; as He wishes the Senior backed, i.e. He longs to have his Father upon Six Men’s Shoulders.
1750–82		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.