backchat
Example Sentences
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Any backchat on the field is given a 10-metre move penalty.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2022
The Irish-born Reynolds renders this gritty backchat with perfection, ranging from the “meet-my-sinuses accent” of a middle-class aspirant to the officious, singsong delivery of a country-born policeman with a voice “six-foot deep in bog.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018
Thus have I written online about the exaltations and lamentations of parenthood: potty training, ruined sleep, baffling toddler backchat.
From Time ● Feb. 1, 2013
As played with beaming verve by Cherise Boothe, Angela Lewis and Nikiya Mathis, these high school girls are a delight to watch, with their freewheeling conversation full of tart backchat and slangy humor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011
As you can imagine, much of this is delightful – the bloggy, scrapbooky aspect, the kipple and backchat and disgusting food.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2011
