backslapper

Example Sentences

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Hogan sidestepped well-wishers, backslappers and autograph hunters, often using the sole American journalist covering the event, John Derr, as a human shield.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018

In public, Rutherford can seem cerebral and guarded, particularly for a politician, a species overcrowded with serial backslappers.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2015

Duberstein, Reagan's chief of staff, believes that Obama and Reagan share some traits: both loners more than backslappers, both heavily reliant on their spouses, both more trusting of their instincts than their advisers.

From Time • Jan. 27, 2011

On good historical evidence he was a classic networker, one of those barroom backslappers who belonged to half the organizations in colonial Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the Teamster boss paraded a troop of backslappers before the microphone to praise himself and his union.

From Time Magazine Archive