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• n  light teasing repartee

• In the first groups she entered, Jane felt dismissed as an "uptight Easterner" and got off some bitchy backchat: "You don't interest me as much as I seem to interest you.
• I need a guy who can backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick.
• Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it).

• banter
• raillery
• give-and-take

News & Articles

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• What do you really think? Anonymous apps allow for secret messaging
  Apps like Backchat and Whisper make it easy to talk online without usernames or profiles, putting an emphasis on anonymity
  Feb. 7, 2014 - CBS News

Quotes

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• Jacqui Smith in BBC News
  Schools minister Jacqui Smith said: "The government has made tackling poor behaviour a major priority. We want a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour in all our schools on everything from backchat to bullying or violence. Schools must...
• Bryan Robson in guardian.co.uk
  West Brom were in turn said to be staggered by Mourinho's behaviour although Robson said last night: "You get backchat between opposing managers and their benches at most games. Yesterday was no different."
• Shami Chakrabarti in Mirror.co.uk
  Shami Chakrabarti, of pressure group Liberty, said: "We don't need to give the police carte blanche to go around throwing people in cells for things like dropping litter. Anyone who gives a bit of backchat now risks being hauled off to a police...