noun
Etymology
Origin of backchat
First recorded in 1895–1900; back 2 + chat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Irish-born Reynolds renders this gritty backchat with perfection, ranging from the “meet-my-sinuses accent” of a middle-class aspirant to the officious, singsong delivery of a country-born policeman with a voice “six-foot deep in bog.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018
The summit backchat was no longer – as it had been in June 1994, or at Fontainebleau 10 years before, when Thatcher had swung her handbag – merely about the UK's stubbornness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2014
It is the individual or group giving the machine a bit of backchat.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2013
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
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