What is "attaboy"

Usage examples of "attaboy".

He pulled from his ill-fitting jacket (bought with money he and Pie had won gambling in Attaboy) a dog-eared copy of Fanny Hill—the only volume in English, besides Pilgrim's Progress, which he'd been able to purchase—and used it to flail at the insects, then gave up.

No less than four suppliers of refreshments came through the train while it waited, one exclusively carrying pastries and candies, among which Gentle found a variation on the honey and seed cake that had almost kept him in Attaboy.

Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II—‘Pom-pim-pom-pam.

He caught a glimpse of the famous Alfa radiator and along the edge of the bonnet in bold white script the words Attaboy II.

Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II-'Pom-pim-pom-pam.

If he did it correctly, he received banana-flavored pellets, plus some attaboys and nuzzles from the vets.

A life of avoiding the blue bolts and gratefully accepting the attaboys and pellets had become the better part of valor.

Poor Gus—all he had gotten after his flight was a medal, a handshake, a gust of rhetoric from James Webb, out on a brain-frying strip of asphalt at Patrick Air Force Base, plus a few attaboys from a crowd of about thirty.

To interpret every issue in terms of attaboys and awshits on your performance appraisal?

And as somebody once said to me, it takes a hundred attaboys to cancel out one oh, shit.