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• n  an impudent or insolent rejoinder
• v  answer back in an impudent or insolent manner;
  The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning

• He has a few weaknesses: exposing his buttocks, sassing his father, making prank calls to Moe's Tavern ("Is Oliver there? Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney .
• This is one time I can get away with sassing 'em.
• Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.

• sass
• backtalk
• back talk
• lip
• mouth

News & Articles

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• Janitor fired for seeking revenge on Michigan 4th-grader
  I am sure there’s a lesson here somewhere about not sassing a school janitor if you don’t want to end up sleeping with the fishes, but one would have to dig deep to find it.
  Oct. 14, 2013 - Dayton Daily News