Crossword clues for backslapper
Wiktionary
n. One who make a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
WordNet
n. someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality
Usage examples of "backslapper".
He was the Boosters' official backslapper and glad-hander, greeting members at every meeting.
And my daily absence from campus made it easier to portray me as an establishment backslapper gliding his way through the turmoil of the time.
Was she supposed to tell him that the sometimes sulky, often frightened Harold that had come to Boulder from Ogunquit had turned into a stout politician, a backslapper, a hail-fellow-well-met type of guy who nonetheless looked at you with the flat and unsmiling eyes of a gila monster?