Green’s Dictionary of Slang

backlip v.

[backlip n.]

(US) to cheek, to speak insolently to.

Hal Ellson Rock 29: Broke a chair on a wise cat’s head for back-lipping me .
H. Kohler Outside Lands 128: Esposito could use a bit of roughing up— he was getting too smug, with his backlipping and workdodging.