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Light teasing repartee
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backchat
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers. ▪ The comic backchat is often crude and indecent. ▪ They give you any backchat , you take them in. ▪ Well, they're the ones who give ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British English) cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism. vb. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backchat was a half-hour television show on FX which ran through the mid-1990s right after the network's inception. Hosted by Jeff Probst , the show consisted of him and two designated letter-readers reading viewer letters and responding on air. At the ...
Usage examples of backchat.
How Simon Templar exchanged backchat, and Gerald Harding shook hands.
When one man points a revolver at another, there is, by convention, a certain amount of backchat about the situation before anything is done.
Once well under way, the thinking process could continue by itself underneath the inevitable froth of banter and backchat.
And if the Saint had anticipated anything, he had anticipated that the arrival of Rayt Marius in the role of an angel-faced harbinger of glad tidings would result in a certain amount of more or less informative backchat before the conversation became centered on prospective funerals.
I expected some backchat, because he'd had to stay away from home a lot.
By trying to get rid of her during their exchange of backchat the night before, March had suggested that she wasn't entirely in his confidence.