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Verb: answer back
Usage: informal
  1. Reply in an impertinent, defiant or cheeky way
    "Don't you dare answer back to your teacher like that!";
    - talk back [informal]

Derived forms: answers back, answered back, answering back

Type of: come back, rejoin, retort, return, riposte