noun
Etymology
Origin of backchat
First recorded in 1895–1900; back 2 + chat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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There’s a lot of backchat with the trainers: the women are enjoying themselves.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024
And if you’re a person like my own mother, who would never permit such backchat in her house, mazel tov.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
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
"I so despised the backchat that I heard in relation to Bring Up the Bodies," she says, wrinkling her nose.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 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
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