"backslap" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "back + slap",
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      "form": "backslaps",
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        "third-person"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "backslapper"
        },
        {
          "word": "backslapping"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14",
          "text": "In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances.",
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        "To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back."
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          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "affirm",
          "affirm"
        ],
        [
          "congratulate",
          "congratulate"
        ]
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  "word": "backslap"
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      "word": "backslapper"
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  "etymology_text": "back + slap",
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    {
      "form": "backslaps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backslapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backslapped",
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    },
    {
      "form": "backslapped",
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      ],
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        "To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back."
      ],
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        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "affirm",
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          "congratulate",
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