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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

backslapper

noun: someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "backslapper": adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wheedler, yes-man

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