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back chat

back chat is the alternative form of backchat.

Meaning of backchat

Noun

backchat (countable and uncountable, plural backchats)

  1. (UK) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
    • Old Pete would have had some smart gay backchat to deal with an awkward moment like this.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    backtalk

See all 2 meanings of backchat

Forms of back chat

Noun
pluralback chats
Verb
third-person singular presentback chats
present participleback chatting
past participleback chatted
pastback chatted

Questions about back chat

What is back chat the alternative form of?
Back chat is the alternative form of backchat.

Words near back chat in the dictionary

  1. back catalogs
  2. back catalogue
  3. back catalogues
  4. back channel
  5. back channels
  6. back chat
  7. back chats
  8. back chatted
  9. back chatting
  10. back comb
  11. back country

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back chat (page history and authors); backchat (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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