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backslaps

backslaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backslap.

Meaning of backslap

Verb

backslap (third-person singular simple present backslaps, present participle backslapping, simple past and past participle backslapped)

  1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.
    • In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed...1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14

Questions about backslaps

What is backslaps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Backslaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backslap.

Words near backslaps in the dictionary

  1. backslapped
  2. backslapper
  3. backslappers
  4. backslapping
  5. backslappings
  6. backslaps
  7. backslash
  8. backslashed
  9. backslashes
  10. backslashing
  11. backslid

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