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Light teasing repartee
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backchat
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Wiktionary
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n. (context British English) cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism. vb. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
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Backchat is a ballet made by Eliot Feld for his Ballet Tech company to "Idle Chatter Junior" by Paul Lansky . The premiere took place October 21, 2004, during the company's MANDANCE PROJECT season at the Joyce Theater , New York. The New York City Ballet ...
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 ...
WordNet
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n. light teasing repartee [syn: banter , raillery , give-and-take ]
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.