To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.
backspin
backspin
noun
(music) Synonym of spinback
Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
verb
(music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
(transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
backstop
backstop
noun
(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
(cricket, dated) The longstop.
(cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
(rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
verb
(transitive) To bolster, support.
(transitive) To serve as backstop for.
bakeshop
bakeshop
noun
A shop where baked goods are made and sold.
barkeeps
barkeeps
noun
plural of barkeep
bespeaks
bespeaks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bespeak
bespoken
bespoken
adj
(obsolete) betrothed or engaged to be married (compare with: spoken for)
verb
past participle of bespeak
bookshop
bookshop
noun
A shop that sells books.
breakups
breakups
noun
plural of breakup
bumpkins
bumpkins
noun
plural of bumpkin
passback
passback
noun
circumvention of an access restriction to a physical site by passing one's access card to another person after having entered
passbook
passbook
noun
(South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
(banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
(dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
paybacks
paybacks
noun
plural of payback
postbook
shopbook
shopbook
noun
(dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
slipback
snapback
snapback
noun
(slang) An adjustable, flat-brimmed baseball cap with snap fasteners on the back.
The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff.
soapbark
soapbark
noun
The bark of the evergreen tree, Quillaja saponaria, which when pulverised forms a lather with water.
The tree Quillaja saponaria.
spaebook
spekboom
spekboom
noun
A South African shrub (Portulacaria afra), whose succulent leaves are used as fodder.