Definition of "back-slapping" [back-slapping]

• Alternative spelling of backslapping. (noun)

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• "The story actually has been driven more by the ultra high incomes (the upper. 1%, for sake of argument) which has been created by a culture of corporate back-slapping."
• "Garner, unlike many in New York literary circles, could not quite go along with the rush of back-slapping huzzahs that greeted the publication last year of a book called The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt by someone named Jon-Jon Goulian."
• "Nearly 41 million people watched last year's orgy of trophy dispensing and back-slapping -- the franchise's biggest audience since 2005."