backslap
See also: back slap
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]backslap (third-person singular simple present backslaps, present participle backslapping, simple past and past participle backslapped)
- To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.
- 1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14:
- 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 would be hostile to his friendly advances.