What is "backbit"

Usage examples of "backbit".

A few saintly person­alities stand out amidst a roiling sea of jealousies, ambition, backbit­ing, suppression of dissent, and absurd conceits.

The SSC was both sleazy and noble: at one level a "quark barrel" commercialized morass of contractors scrambling at the federal trough, while Congressmen eye-gouged one another in the cloakroom, scientists angled for the main chance and a steady paycheck, and supposedly dignified scholars ground their teeth in public and backbit like a bunch of jealous prima donnas.