backchat
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backchat (countable and uncountable, plural backchats)
- (British) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Old Pete would have had some smart gay backchat to deal with an awkward moment like this.
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- backtalk (US)
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backtalk — see backtalk
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backchat (third-person singular simple present backchats, present participle backchatting, simple past and past participle backchatted)
- To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
- Peter was sent to detention for backchatting the teacher.
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- (disputatively or sarcastically respond): answer back, mouth off, sass
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backtalk — see backtalk