"back-chat" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back-chats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "back-chat (third-person singular simple present back-chats, present participle back-chatting, simple past and past participle back-chatted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "backchat"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Melissa A. Johnson, Nature and progress in rural Creole Belize, page 149",
          "text": "Most church women I know still go visiting, may \"back-chat\" their male partner, and may not be \"quiet\" at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ben Collins, The Red Fox: The Biography of Norm Smith, page 318",
          "text": "Very few dared to back-chat Smith anyway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bill Rogers, How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour, page 49",
          "text": "Children may choose the fight or flight response. They may back-chat or argue or they may withdraw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of backchat"
      ],
      "id": "en-back-chat-en-verb-DAs4lsZ~",
      "links": [
        [
          "backchat",
          "backchat#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back-chat"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back-chats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "back-chat (countable and uncountable, plural back-chats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "backchat"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter",
          "text": "' […] Be firm with him; tell him you have already chosen a bride. He won't dare give you back-chat.' Mother talked to Ramu in Tamil.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time",
          "text": "He was always very good to me but I made sure I never stepped out of line. My fears in this direction were confirmed when, later in the season, Dave Shawcross, a highly talented wing-half, had the nerve to give Jim a bit of back-chat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matthew Trevannion, “Bruised”, in Matthew Trevannion, Rachel Trezise, Tim Price, editors, Contemporary Welsh Plays, page 419",
          "text": "No, you love minimum back-chat and three square meals a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of backchat"
      ],
      "id": "en-back-chat-en-noun-DAs4lsZ~",
      "links": [
        [
          "backchat",
          "backchat#English"
        ]
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back-chat"
}

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    "English uncountable nouns",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back-chats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back-chatted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Melissa A. Johnson, Nature and progress in rural Creole Belize, page 149",
          "text": "Most church women I know still go visiting, may \"back-chat\" their male partner, and may not be \"quiet\" at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ben Collins, The Red Fox: The Biography of Norm Smith, page 318",
          "text": "Very few dared to back-chat Smith anyway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bill Rogers, How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour, page 49",
          "text": "Children may choose the fight or flight response. They may back-chat or argue or they may withdraw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of backchat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "backchat",
          "backchat#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alternative"
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  ],
  "word": "back-chat"
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      "form": "back-chats",
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      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "backchat"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter",
          "text": "' […] Be firm with him; tell him you have already chosen a bride. He won't dare give you back-chat.' Mother talked to Ramu in Tamil.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time",
          "text": "He was always very good to me but I made sure I never stepped out of line. My fears in this direction were confirmed when, later in the season, Dave Shawcross, a highly talented wing-half, had the nerve to give Jim a bit of back-chat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matthew Trevannion, “Bruised”, in Matthew Trevannion, Rachel Trezise, Tim Price, editors, Contemporary Welsh Plays, page 419",
          "text": "No, you love minimum back-chat and three square meals a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of backchat"
      ],
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        [
          "backchat",
          "backchat#English"
        ]
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  "word": "back-chat"
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