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back-pats

back-pats is the plural of back-pat.

back-pats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of back-pat.

Meaning of back-pat

Noun

back-pat (plural back-pats)

  1. Synonym of pat on the back.
    • It was also a back-pat to the NRA, which had already successfully lobbied the administration to amend its stay-at-home guidance to include gun stores within the exceptions for essential businesses.2020 April 26, Harry Litman, “Beaten Red-and-Blue”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 22, page A13
    Synonyms:
    pat on the back

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Questions about back-pats

What is back-pats the plural of?
Back-pats is the plural of back-pat.

Words near back-pats in the dictionary

  1. back-pad
  2. back-page
  3. back-pager
  4. back-pages
  5. back-pat
  6. back-pats
  7. back-patted
  8. back-patting
  9. back-patty
  10. back-pedal
  11. back-pocket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-pats (page history and authors); back-pat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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