Definition of talks back

talk back    

verb

• to sass.

  Don't talk back to the teacher.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to insult, complain, criticize.

  Last edited on May 13 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 13 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'to insult, complain, criticize':
backhanded compliment	Definitions include: a "compliment" with a buried insult.
slam book	Definitions include: a paper notebook passed between peers at a school, in which they write mean things about classmates and others.
hit back at	Definitions include: See hit back.
neg	Definitions include: to say a "neg" (as described in the noun sense) to a person.
flame	Definitions include: This definition is questionable and is pending deletion.
blaze	Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
tear into	Definitions include: to aggressively start consuming.
slam	Definitions include: put one down; criticize.
take the piss	Definitions include: to mock, make fun of, kid.
bag on	Definitions include: to insult for fun; "make fun of".
burn	Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
zwa	Definitions include: exclamation used in response to a burn or an instance of outsmarting someone.
bust (one's) chops	Definitions include: to criticize.
fry	Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs.
grief	Definitions include: criticism.
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Other terms relating to 'back':
back	Definitions include: large buttocks.
back 40	Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
back *sswards	Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards".
back at the ranch	Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent.
back at you	Definitions include: and the same to you.
back-catalog	Definitions include: obscure.
back-catalogue	Definitions include: obscure.
back door	Definitions include: the anus.
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
back-door trots, the	Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea.
back end	Definitions include: the anus.
back forty	Definitions include: a place that is far away.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
back off	Definitions include: large buttocks.
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Other terms relating to 'talk':
close-talker	Definitions include: a person who stands uncomfortably close to others while talking.
coffee talk	Definitions include: hanging out and talking about nothing.
give a talking to	Definitions include: see talking to.
Jimmy's talkin	Definitions include: so drunk that it's the alcohol talking, not you.
locker room talk	Definitions include: discussion using foul language, or of a sexual or otherwise offensive nature.
pep talk	Definitions include: a conversation or speech designed to raise a person or group's mood or confidence.
real talk	Definitions include: honest talk.
sh*t talking	Definitions include: the action of someone "talking shit".
small talk	Definitions include: discussion about non-sensitive topics in a social setting.
sweet talk	Definitions include: to make someone more agreeable to a future planned request by being complimentary, doing favors, etc.
talk	Definitions include: begin to date.
talk big	Definitions include: to make threats one doesn't plan to or cannot carry out.
talk dirty	Definitions include: to speak of sexual subjects.
talking *sshole	Definitions include: audible flatulence one gets after eating food that doesn't agree with one's stomach.
talking to	Definitions include: a scolding.
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