Backslap

Quick meaning: Backslap is a verb meaning To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

Meaning

To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

Example Sentences

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 would be hostile to his friendly advances.

Word Forms

• backslaps
• backslapping
• backslapped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clap, smack, swack, beclap, cockslap, spat.

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