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back chat en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of backchat.
    alt of backchat
    • Eldest daughter is wearing too much make-up and giving out the usual back chat, no matter. 2010, Stephen Oakes, Every Little Thing Matters, page 39:
    • Many parents often feel exhausted by the constant arguing, 'back chat' and debate they receive from their children. Once you tell a child off, he will talk back and debate the issue endlessly. 2004, Uttom Chowdhury, Tics and Tourette Syndrome, page 86:
    • There was some back chat when I went back to my unit but none of it was nasty. 2012, Colin Shindler, National Service: From Aldershot to Aden:

Forms

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back chats Number=Plur lexicographic

back chat en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of backchat.
    alt of backchat
    • She was about to back chat me when I changed my facial expression. 2012, Deryck Foster, To Find Friends, page 118:
    • He left me to run the yard and I back chatted him one day. He told me to 'fuck off' so I told him to 'fuck off' and as I'm walking off up the road he hit me on the head, from about thirty yards, with a half brick. He knocked me out in front of his pals. 2013, Anthony Donnelly, Christopher Donnelly, Simon Spence, Still Breathing:
    • Erm, say mum told me off or something I can back chat her sometimes and she can't hear me. 2012, Michele Moore, Children's Reflections On Family Life, page 83:

Forms

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back chatted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
back chatted Tense=Past lexicographic
back chatting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
back chats Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic