back-slapping

adjective

1. energetically jovial; hearty

Example Sentences

After issuing a rash of half-baked tweets to the back-slapping applause of red-pill dinguses, Silver has given the internet’s Right-wingers a reason to welcome him to the club.

From Salon

"No doubt there will be lots of cheering and back-slapping... but the physics will not care. As the new agreement locks in high levels of emissions for years to come, so the temperature will continue to rise," said Prof Kevin Anderson from University of Manchester.

From BBC

It took classic episodes of political horse-trading and back-slapping to happen, and it delivered a lot of back-stabbing to earlier original Californians, like Native Americans and Mexican Californios.

From Los Angeles Times

Carter wasn’t much for the legislature’s back-slapping ways.

From Seattle Times

Her father Manny was a back-slapping Nevada politician who worked his way up from parking valet to lawyer to president of the powerful government agency that promotes the state's all-important tourism industry.

From BBC

Related Words

• cheery
• cordial
• ebullient
• exuberant
• generous
• genial
• genuine
• heartfelt
• passionate
• sincere
• warm