ANSWER BACK

{v.} {informal} To answer rudely; reply in a disrespectful way; be fresh. * /When the teacher told the boy to sit down, he talked back to her and said she couldn't make him./ * /Mary talked back when her mother told her to stop watching television; she said, "I don't have to if I don't want to."/ * /Russell was going somewhere with some bad boys, when his father told him it was wrong, Russell answered him back, "Mind your own business."/