Back-slapping
the practice of making a loud and effusive display of friendliness, cordiality, etc., as by slapping persons on the back.
to subject to backslapping.
to engage in backslapping.
a hearty slap on the back given as a token of affability or congratulation:
the bridegroom received many a warm handshake and backslap.
historical examples
only the governor’s back-slapping mediation had allowed them to reach a politically stable relationship.
a mixture of genius arnold castle
isn’t the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that p-sses for humor here?
main street sinclair lewis
here happened that accident of the back-slapping so frequently alluded to by her ladyship.
all sorts and conditions of men walter besant
such hand-shaking and back-slapping and outcries of honest pleasure as greeted him!
grenfell: knight-errant of the north fullerton waldo
loud, back-slapping men, gabbling endlessly about baseball players.
a book of burlesques h. l. mencken
adjective
energetically jovial; hearty
adjective
demonstratively friendly: the back-slapping jocosity that p-sses for humor here (1777+)
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