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back-pat•ting



Pronunciation: (bak'pat"ing), [key]
—n.
an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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