A compliment couched in the form or tone of an insult. Often used by people who *want* to be nice, but fear being seen as weak or disingenuous, but can be unintentional.
When Maurice told Mary she was "the least photogenic pretty chick" he'd ever seen, he meant that pictures didn't do her beauty justice, but it came off as a backhanded insult.
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Step 1: Take off/drop pants or unzip.
Step 2: While standing, raise your leg onto a bench, chair or small stool.
Step 3: Reach under the raised leg. Taking a firm grip of The Penis.
Step 4: Maintain ringlike grip on The Penis with thumb and forfinger. Fanning out remaining three fingers.
Step 5: Rub it out. Maintain Fan.
Step 1: Take off/drop pants or unzip.
Step 2: While standing, raise your leg onto a bench, chair or small stool.
Step 3: Reach under the raised leg. Taking a firm grip of The Penis.
Step 4: Maintain ringlike grip on The Penis with thumb and forfinger. Fanning out remaining three fingers.
Step 5: Rub it out. Maintain Fan.
Example 1
Matos: What's up Stef, your looking blue?
Stef: Man, cranking just isn't hitting the spot anymore.
Matos: Dude, just start pumping Back-Hand Fantails, it's like your knob won the lottery.
Example 2
Hayden: Yo, what you up to tonight Big Mattress?
Matt: Just popping off Back-Hand Fantails.
Hayden: Living large!
Matos: What's up Stef, your looking blue?
Stef: Man, cranking just isn't hitting the spot anymore.
Matos: Dude, just start pumping Back-Hand Fantails, it's like your knob won the lottery.
Example 2
Hayden: Yo, what you up to tonight Big Mattress?
Matt: Just popping off Back-Hand Fantails.
Hayden: Living large!
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Get the back hand mug.is an insult that is disguised as, or accompanied by, a compliment, especially in situations where the belittling or condescension is intentional.
“You’re pretty for a black girl/boy”
“You’re pretty for a trans girl/boy”
This is a backhanded compliment
“You’re pretty for a trans girl/boy”
This is a backhanded compliment
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