backslapper

NOUN
  1. someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality
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How To Use backslapper In A Sentence

  • If anything, the ‘backslapper’ and ‘working man's champ’ type was better known in the industrial districts of the US, than it ever was in Labour (with a ‘u’) movement.
  • February 24th, 2009 at 3: 23 pm it would be hard to find a southern governor who is not a woolhat wingnut professional backslapper. Matthew Yglesias » Phil Bredesen Joins Forces With Dixie Wingnuts to Stick it to the Unemployed
  • He's not a backslapper, and some of his problems in Aspen may come from a lingering homophobia aimed in his general direction. Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Good Guy Finally Wins At Aspen Music Fest
  • Maybe whoever was your backslapper last year slapped more than your back, but I was just doing my job. She’s So Dead to Us
  • Over the weekend Annie had helped me land a job at CVS, where she worked, and I would spend my entire first paycheck on Jake if it would prove to Faith and the rest of them that I could still be a good backslapper. She’s So Dead to Us
  • The word on him, as this Politico story says, is that he's "a serious wonk," which makes him a counterpoint to John Boehner, "a backslapper who loves golf and socializes with his friends. Is Eric Cantor a policy wonk?
  • Another industry backslapper with music content that would not even grace an elevator. yet another plot to keep our airwaves free of rock and roll. Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut
  • With the possible exception of Crist, it would be hard to find a southern governor who is not a woolhat wingnut professional backslapper. Matthew Yglesias » Phil Bredesen Joins Forces With Dixie Wingnuts to Stick it to the Unemployed
  • — it takes tremendous heart and a heckuva lot of guts to stand in front of an audience even one comprised of fellow love-festing backslappers with plastered smiles on their wine-tasting bonhomous faces…yes, Om, I AM making fun of you and talk about rewarding people whose contributions to greater society could lead to a more harmonious existence. Skype CEO for Nobel Prize?
  • Barbour, the Southern backslapper and former lobbyist who has been governor of Mississippi since 2005, has allies everywhere, especially in the South. GOP 2012
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