phrasal verb

• also answer someone backRespond cheekily or disrespectfully to someone, especially when being criticized or told to do something.

  ‘you couldn't argue with a parent, you couldn't answer back’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Mary resisted the temptation to answer her mother back’

  Synonyms

  be impertinent to, talk back to, respond cheekily to, be cheeky to