backchat
Example Sentences
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There’s a lot of backchat with the trainers: the women are enjoying themselves.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024
Writing in the first person as Nikki, he has created a character who peppers the patriarchy with rapid-fire volleys of backchat.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019
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
The previous week he promised he'd expel any child who gave him backchat.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2011
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
