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back-patted

back-patted is the simple past and past participle of back-pat.

Meaning of back-pat

Verb

back-pat (third-person singular simple present back-pats, present participle back-patting, simple past and past participle back-patted)

  1. Synonym of pat on the back.
    • Barney has always back-patted himself that he is without an equal on the dirt track.1911 February 19, “The Auto Racers”, in The Sun, volume CXLVIII, number 95, Baltimore, Md., part 2, page 1, column 4
    Synonyms:
    pat on the back

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Questions about back-patted

What is back-patted the simple past and past participle of?
Back-patted is the simple past and past participle of back-pat.

Words near back-patted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-patted (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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