back chat

English

Noun

back chat (countable and uncountable, plural back chats)

1. Alternative form of backchat
   • 2004, Uttom Chowdhury, Tics and Tourette Syndrome, page 86:

     Many parents often feel exhausted by the constant arguing, 'back chat' and debate they receive from their children. Once you tell a child off, he will talk back and debate the issue endlessly.

   • 2010, Stephen Oakes, Every Little Thing Matters, page 39:

     Eldest daughter is wearing too much make-up and giving out the usual back chat, no matter.

   • 2012, Colin Shindler, National Service: From Aldershot to Aden:

     There was some back chat when I went back to my unit but none of it was nasty.

Verb

back chat (third-person singular simple present back chats, present participle back chatting, simple past and past participle back chatted)

1. Alternative form of backchat
   • 2012, Michele Moore, Children's Reflections On Family Life, page 83:

     Erm, say mum told me off or something I can back chat her sometimes and she can't hear me.

   • 2012, Deryck Foster, To Find Friends, page 118:

     She was about to back chat me when I changed my facial expression.

   • 2013, Anthony Donnelly, Christopher Donnelly, Simon Spence, Still Breathing:

     He left me to run the yard and I back chatted him one day. He told me to 'fuck off' so I told him to 'fuck off' and as I'm walking off up the road he hit me on the head, from about thirty yards, with a half brick. He knocked me out in front of his pals.