Usually means: Respond defiantly or argumentatively.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. answer (someone) back, answer back: Merriam-Webster
  2. answer back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. answer back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. answer (sb) back, answer back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. answer back: Wiktionary
  6. answer back: Dictionary.com
  7. answer-back, answer back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. answer back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  9. answer back: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. answer back: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. answer back: Encyclopedia

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  1. answer back: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (answer back)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To reply impertinently to (someone); to talk back.
verb:  To reply to a question from (someone) at a later time.
verb:  (computing) To issue echo characters, protocol responses, reflexive connection requests, etc.

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