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backchat

/ˈbæk.t͡ʃæt/

backchat noun: cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

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

Verb

backchat (third-person singular simple present backchats, present participle backchatting, simple past and past participle backchatted)

  1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
    • Peter was sent to detention for backchatting the teacher.

backchat meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

backchat in Bengali

বিতর্কিত, বিদ্রূপাত্মকভাবে জবাব দেওয়া

backchat in Malayalam

impertinence, impudence, cheek
തർക്കുത്തരം, പ്രത്യുത്തരം, അധികപ്രസംഗം, ധിക്കാരം, ധാർഷ്ട്യം, ധിക്കൃതി

Synonyms of backchat

Forms of backchat

Noun
pluralbackchats
alternative formback chat
alternative formback-chat
Verb
third-person singular presentbackchats
present participlebackchatting
past participlebackchatted
pastbackchatted

Origin of backchat

From back + chat.

Questions about backchat

What does backchat mean?
Backchat means cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
What is backchat in Bengali?
Backchat in Bengali is বিতর্কিত, বিদ্রূপাত্মকভাবে জবাব দেওয়া. See Backchat meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is backchat?
Backchat can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce backchat?
Backchat is pronounced /ˈbæk.t͡ʃæt/.
What is the plural of backchat?
The plural of backchat is backchats.

Words near backchat in the dictionary

  1. backchanneled
  2. backchanneling
  3. backchannelled
  4. backchannelling
  5. backchannels
  6. backchat
  7. backchats
  8. backchatted
  9. backchatting
  10. backcheck
  11. backchecked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: backchat (page history and authors); backchat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); backchat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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