Backpat

No backpats are handed out and no compliments.

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We are actually just re-creating the reassuring backpats our mothers gave us when we were babies; one of our hands symbolically represents the performer’s back while our other hand pats our approval into it.[…]Even the British Royal Wave and the Papal Wave are backpats, symbolic reassurances directed at large, anxious and, presumably, infantile crowds.

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Kathe Rafferty is getting backpats and bouquets from pals learning that she has put out a shingle for hew new firm, Corporate Presence, purveying such services as publicity, event planning and fund-raising.

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Barney has always backpatted himself that he is without an equal on the dirt track.

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