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ˈback-ˌslapping, ppl. a. and vbl. n.
[back- A. 1.]
Slapping the back. So back-slapper, a vigorously hearty person. Hence (as a back-formation) back-slap v.
1777Twining in Country Clergym. 18th C. (1882) 50 A brisk, noisy, back-slapping new man. 1884E. Yates Recollections I. v. 186 A..good-natured vulgarian, of a dreadful back-slapping, Christian-name calling familiarity. 1920S. Lewis Main Street xxviii. §6, Isn't the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that passes for humor here? 1924Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 23/1 (heading) Here's a Comic Piece About a Back-Slapper. 1929Evening News 4 Jan. 9/4 The back-slappers, the rib-diggers, the over hearty and the dwellers-in-the-limelight are to be avoided. 1935S. Lewis It can't happen Here ix. 88 He grinned and knee-patted and back-slapped. 1946Scrutiny XIV. 155 The blustering, hearty, back-slapping manner..is the reverse of the discreet, self-effacing and seemly behaviour which one has a right to expect of a good undertaker. 1960J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Australia vii. 77 There were, to be true, wild jumps of elation and much back-slapping. |