answer back
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Ambitransitive To reply impertinently to (someone); to talk back.
- I'll thank you not to answer back like that! Where are your manners?
- She answered him back rudely.
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- This further enraged the mother-in-law who reprimanded the girl for answering back to elders.1990, K. D. Gangrade, Rameshwar Prasad Misra, Conflict Resolution Through Non-violence: Development without destruction, Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 244:
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To reply to a question from (someone) at a later time.
- Please answer me back before the end of the week.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To match an opponent’s recent scoring effort.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To issue echo characters, protocol responses, reflexive connection requests, etc.
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