backchat
Example Sentences
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The Irish-born Reynolds renders this gritty backchat with perfection, ranging from the “meet-my-sinuses accent” of a middle-class aspirant to the officious, singsong delivery of a country-born policeman with a voice “six-foot deep in bog.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018
It is the individual or group giving the machine a bit of backchat.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2013
Thus have I written online about the exaltations and lamentations of parenthood: potty training, ruined sleep, baffling toddler backchat.
From Time • Feb. 1, 2013
As played with beaming verve by Cherise Boothe, Angela Lewis and Nikiya Mathis, these high school girls are a delight to watch, with their freewheeling conversation full of tart backchat and slangy humor.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2011
Some of the sites they produce are terrific; others simply in-joke backchat.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2011
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
