back-patting

[ bak-pat-ing ]

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noun

an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation:
The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.

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All this back patting, people say, has made our children lazy and created a sense of entitlement.

And in all this outpouring of sentiment, this hand-shaking and back-patting, nobody thought to offer a kind word to old Waddles.

More back patting, crowding up, conscious blushes, and congratulations.

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