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back-patting

[bak-pat-ing]

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noun

an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.

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Historical Examples of back-patting

And in all this outpouring of sentiment, this hand-shaking and back-patting, nobody thought to offer a kind word to old Waddles.
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Charles Emmett Van Loan