backpat

noun 1verb 1

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noun

1

Alternative form of back-pat.

No backpats are handed out and no compliments.

We are actually just re-creating the reassuring backpats our mothers gave us when we were babies; one of our hands symbolically represents the performer’s back while our other hand pats our approval into it.[…]Even the British Royal Wave and the Papal Wave are backpats, symbolic reassurances directed at large, anxious and, presumably, infantile crowds.

verb

1

Alternative form of back-pat.

Barney has always backpatted himself that he is without an equal on the dirt track.

Twenty-three members of the Class, an appropriate number, duly observed the passing of the Nass and backpatted outgoing Class officials when it was announced that the treasury was solvent again.

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