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- verb Present participle of
backslap .
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Examples
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This is the kind of person Bush used to snigger at us all about as he backslapped them and told the world how Jonas Salk and MLK weren't fit to wipe these people's posteriors.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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This is the kind of person Bush used to snigger at us all about as he backslapped them and told the world how Jonas Salk and MLK weren't fit to wipe these people's posteriors.
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All sorts of rosy scenarios were drawn and everyone smiled and backslapped to get these unfunded mandates passed.
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At the 83-year-old stone clubhouse perched atop a hill, members poured out throughout the first day of play on Thursday with the swagger of honorees at a ticker-tape parade: They laughed, backslapped, and high-fived one another.
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At the 83-year-old stone clubhouse perched atop a hill, members poured out throughout the first day of play on Thursday with the swagger of honorees at a ticker-tape parade: They laughed, backslapped, and high-fived one another.
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It's true that no-one ever comes out of court talking about how they have great faith in the British legal system after they have been found guilty and sentenced to a significant period in jail - but it was more the image of the slick politicians the new 'acceptable face' of the BNP being heartily backslapped by the old guard bovver boys in skinheads and shades punching the air that upset me.
1-0 to the Brutes in Suits Kerron Cross 2006
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At the 83-year-old stone clubhouse perched atop a hill, members poured out throughout the first day of play on Thursday with the swagger of honorees at a ticker-tape parade: They laughed, backslapped, and high-fived one another.
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At the 83-year-old stone clubhouse perched atop a hill, members poured out throughout the first day of play on Thursday with the swagger of honorees at a ticker-tape parade: They laughed, backslapped, and high-fived one another.
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SAMUEL CLEMENS capered and backslapped his way through the last months of 1874 like a boy on the last day of school.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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SAMUEL CLEMENS capered and backslapped his way through the last months of 1874 like a boy on the last day of school.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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