backpat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of back-pat.
verb
Alternative form of back-pat.
Example Sentences
- "No backpats are handed out and no compliments."
- "We are actually just re-creating the reassuring backpats our mothers gave us when we were babies; one of our hands symbolically represents the performer’s back while our other hand pats our approval into it.[…]Even the British Royal Wave and the Papal Wave are backpats, symbolic reassurances directed at large, anxious and, presumably, infantile crowds."
- "Kathe Rafferty is getting backpats and bouquets from pals learning that she has put out a shingle for hew new firm, Corporate Presence, purveying such services as publicity, event planning and fund-raising."
- "Barney has always backpatted himself that he is without an equal on the dirt track."
- "Twenty-three members of the Class, an appropriate number, duly observed the passing of the Nass and backpatted outgoing Class officials when it was announced that the treasury was solvent again."
- "For its smooth use of the Americanism “passing the buck,” we recently backpatted Desoutter, British maker of portable tools."