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back-patting
[ bak-pat-ing ]
/ ˈbækˌpæt ɪŋ /
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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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How to use back-patting in a sentence
All this back patting, people say, has made our children lazy and created a sense of entitlement.
And in all this outpouring of sentiment, this hand-shaking and back-patting, nobody thought to offer a kind word to old Waddles.
Fore!|Charles Emmett Van LoanMore back patting, crowding up, conscious blushes, and congratulations.
Tom, Dick and Harry|Talbot Baines Reed