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back-slapping
adjective
- energetically jovial; hearty
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The idea that he could have gotten six more GOP votes with more back-slapping is preposterous.
Only the Governor's back-slapping mediation had allowed them to reach a politically stable relationship.
Loud, back-slapping men, gabbling endlessly about baseball players.
Here happened that accident of the back-slapping so frequently alluded to by her ladyship.
Such hand-shaking and back-slapping and outcries of honest pleasure as greeted him!
Save with Paul Riesling, mechanical friendships—back-slapping and jocular, never daring to essay the test of quietness.
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