lapper

English

lapper (plural lappers)

One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with his tongue.
- 1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker^[1], page ?:
  ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.
- 1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine^[2], page 470:
  The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.
(in combination) something (especially a race) that is a stated number of laps e.g. a 25-lapper
- 2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King^[3], page ?:
  ...Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.
(sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
- June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
  After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home..
A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine

lapper (third-person singular simple present lappers, present participle lappering, simple past and past participle lappered)

To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
- 1900?, S.R. Crockett, “XXXVII”, in The Red Axe^[4], ISBN 0543961451, page 238:
  There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.