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vb. (present participle of answer back English)
Usage examples of "answering back".
Well, let's see if he's still got that fucking pious look on his face when the corpse starts answering back.
When she was younger, Sosia had often beaten her for disobedience: the ruler on the knuckles for clumsiness, the stick across the legs for answering back.
Lymond, out of what looked like sheer boredom, had begun answering back.
There was one lad, who had been expelled from school for answering back and shouting at the teachers.
In the smoky room, crammed with fighting men of every rank, the lasses were trotting back and forth, bringing ale, serving bread, dodging the men's wandering hands and answering back as smartly as they could to the various remarks they were getting.
WPC Wren had activated the Kidnap code and the computer was answering back.
He focused on the question of answering back, and fast, before those coldly named Charonians could interfere.