What is "attaboys"

Usage examples of "attaboys".

He would even come back to Langley and write cards to workers he had met on the assembly line, giving them little "attaboys," as if they were all in this thing together, partners in the great adventure, and he, the astronaut, would never forget his, the welding inspector's, beaming mug.

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.

Second, once it was gained, it was a fragile substance, since one "dammit" could delete a lifetime of "attaboys" in the bank balance of battle.

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.