backslap

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backslap

/ˈbæk.slæp/

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From back + slap.

verb backslaps · backslapping · backslapped

To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back. In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed wo

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@misc{backslap_2026,
  title = {backslap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/backslap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}