backchat BrE informal
backtalk AmE informal

I expected some backchat, because he'd had to stay away from home a lot.

Well, they're the ones who give you the backchat.

They give you any backchat, you take them in.

He'd had enough backchat for one hour.

Their progeny will like the backchat from this believable anti-heroine.

I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers.

The schools council is called Backchat.

He didn't try any more backchat.

They hadn't offered any backchat when he ordered them to drop their trousers around their ankles.

There was a little backchat then, that I didn't understand; in a few minutes he hung up the receiver and came over to me by the fire.

Prentice was ignoring my backchat.

My backchat disturbed my guests.

On his way down, he was charm personified: a likeable rogue, full of smirks, one-liners and backchat, but respectful.

'We haven't got time for comic backchat,' said Dawlish.

Backchat was a half-hour television show on FX which ran through the mid-1990s right after the network's inception.

Backchat Highlights Special (26 September 1992).

"The three species show an unusual' spread of morphotypes," Chekov said, very calmly continuing and paying no particular attention to the backchat.

I think it sensed I was in a serious jam, and it dispensed with the usual backchat and wished me luck.

She then moved into television in the late 1990s, working for three years as an onscreen journalist and director for the issues and arts programme, Backchat.

They used to have loudspeakers on the back of their machines that bawled out backchat and delivery instructions to everyone within a radius of a hundred yards.

(Mason's) fiddling with tape recorders is excellent, and the dialogues in and out of court show what can be done with backchat to create drama."

He heard a jackal howl, and a lot of backchat from a family of vultures that had commandeered a doum palm down on the lakeside.

Kelly volunteered at Melbourne's RRR, as a host of "Backchat," a radio program discussing women's current affairs.

Two releases of 'Alistair McGowan's Football Backchat' were best sellers in both comedy and sports video charts.

"You do what I say and no backtalk or funny stuff."

If I tell you to, drop your face into the mud without any backtalk.

I yell at the computer and it upgrades without any backtalk.

There would be no backtalk or grumbling when Spirit was spared.

Normally he did not appreciate backtalk from the denizens of Hell.

And I'm not accustomed to getting backtalk, except too much of it lately from him."

Once it's known how loud I can yell, backtalk is at a minimum."

He answered the warder's questions without backtalk after that.

Backtalk doesn't fret me; it's just talk and I'm interested in results.

Ramsay, offended by Raj's backtalk, got into his face about it.

"He must be tremendously useful if it's worth putting up with that much backtalk," Leia said.

He says I don't give him any backtalk and just do what I am told.

"The Raillys of this world can take a lot more backtalk than you think.

"But don't assume that we are going to take any backtalk from you cavemen!

You gave him some backtalk and he told you to shut up and to send me in.

And maybe this backtalk thing I've got going is enough of a gimmick to keep me on the tip of your tongue.

The constant backtalk from the machine, the flashing lights, the loud sound effects and the complicated "play field" were throwing me off.

Coach Bill Belichick is not known to tolerate much backtalk from players.

The two who were sitting outside the tent were drinking whiskey, and when the lieutenant called them on it they gave a lot of backtalk.

"I don't want any of your smart backtalk."

Few adult meth would so long endure so much backtalk.

In fact," and s/he looked around in a manner that was clearly not enduring any backtalk, "I outrank everyone here.

"No backtalk, you dirty spy," the laundry officer grated, and slapped him hard in the offensive grin.

"He doesn't take any backtalk from anybody.

No backtalk to Centcomp from in here.