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BACKSLAPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backslapper mean?
• BACKSLAPPER (noun)
The noun BACKSLAPPER has 1 sense:
1. someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality
Familiarity information: BACKSLAPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("backslapper" is a kind of...):
enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)
Derivation:
backslap (display excessive cordiality (towards))
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