Noun : The bridegroom received many a warm handshake and backslap.    From Dictionary.com. 

You are here to backslap and feel part of a clique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Meets With John Edwards] Reference

Reece has to be stung by that backslap from the Enquirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enquirer: Reece Ego, Luken Weakness Faulted] Reference

The doorman greeted Julian with a high five and a backslap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Night at Chateau Marmont] Reference

In yesteryears such numbers would have been greeted with a hearty relative backslap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Are Dobbs Ferry's Taxes So High ?] Reference

~ Men, Women, and Friendship -- "Men razz and backslap, while women share and relate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 9/26/07] Reference

But the memo also functions as a self-congratulatory backslap for the Web site's big year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morning After: What Happens at Politico?] Reference

He would just backslap with reporters, that kind of thing. a couple of days back, I got on his plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008] Reference

They don't backslap them into their place or tolerate those who do with venomous words and derogatory labels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathleen Reardon: Backslapped! No Way Democrats Would Do That. Right?] Reference

After games, Mr. Ryan wanders back to the clubhouse to backslap and gladhand the players and assembled reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Teams From Very Different Planets] Reference

Which means that for Dubya, what would have been a backslap height for a orginary woman appears headed in the NBC photo for dead cheek center on Walsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [If the Olympics are "soft porn" and you are "concentrating" on the female gymnasts....] Reference

Every backslap, legislative compromise, and public speech was geared to building her legislative resume and her media image for the bigger contest for the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Hillary Clinton Should Be The Next Ted Kennedy] Reference

The search for spirituality and meaning now underway in so many places must be some reaction against the soullessness of the backslap and the speed dial, the impossibility of "multitasking" what really matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LAYERED LIVES WE LEAD] Reference

But you have to give the guy a backslap for trying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference

I'm not sure if that was a compliment or a backslap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whudat • The Latest Black Celebrity News and Views sprinkled with flavors] Reference

That does not mean that you have to backslap your co-stars, not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndiaGlitz.com - News] Reference

'At length, though, a murmur could be heard, a thin smile seen, a backslap felt.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He belongs to the battered libertarian wing of the GOP, and has been met with a backslap by.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

According to Cihra, Apple deserves a backslap for remaining in control of it's own products and pricing schedules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld] Reference

There's probably a good-natured backslap, a sweaty high-five, no, no male locker-room joke but yes, loads of bonhomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

According to Ric Bucher, Penn took a better title, a bigger paycheck and a hearty backslap from Paul Allen to stay in Home Sweet PDX.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This week, state Controller John Chiang said he intended to comply by restoring the guards 'full pay, which prompted a backslap from the governor's office.    From Wordnik.com.  [KCRA.com - Local News] Reference

America's enemies, including those who now backslap the egotistically blinded Obama, will seize their opportunities presented by his myopic governing philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference

I watched black hand backslap white face.    From Wordnik.com.  [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference

And watch out for the deflation backslap.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Reference

Alabama backslap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Ligntning] Reference

A quick backslap and a "Hey!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]