back chat

plural back chats

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of backchat.

   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

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   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

   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

present singular third person back chats · participle present back chatting · participle past back chatted · past back chatted

1. alternativeAlternative form of backchat.

   She was about to back chat me when I changed my facial expression.

   2012, Deryck Foster, To Find Friends, page 118

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   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

   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