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slap

See also: șlap and SLAP

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /slæp/
  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Noun

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slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

  1. (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
    Hyponym: (to the head) cuff
    He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie.
  2. (countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
    the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles
  3. (countable, music) The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
    • 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Havens goes into the terrific Freedom for an encore, which will turn out to be a highlight of the movie; its chopped guitar and conga slaps pre-empt late 90s R&B.
  4. (slang, uncountable) Makeup; cosmetics.
    • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:
      Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.
    • Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)
      If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.
  5. (slang, countable) An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
    • 2019, Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell, The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, page 859:
      […] which seek to retake public space for their own expression, using graffiti, stickering, 'slaps' and street art to dissent from the commercialisation of the public sphere.

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Verb

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slap (third-person singular simple present slaps, present participle slapping, simple past and past participle slapped)

  1. (transitive) To give a slap to.
    Hyponym: (to the head) cuff
    She slapped him in response to the insult.
  2. (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.
    He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
  3. (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.
    The rain slapped against the window-panes.
  4. (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent, especially when relating to music.
    Synonyms: bang, eat, rule, rock; see also Thesaurus:excel
    The band's new single slaps.
    • 2019, “Glass Battles”, in PT Music Watch, number 1, page 35:
      There are some cinematic elements, but at the end of the day, the album fucking slaps.
    • 2019 April, Gloria Perez, “Your Things”, in Your Mag, page 74:
      Also I will never get tired of the song "Motion Sickness" by Phoebe Bridgers. Shit slaps.
    • 2019 November, Elly Watson, “The Great 2019 Debate”, in DIY, page 59:
      2016's 'Girls Like Me' still slaps to this day.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slap.
  5. (transitive) To place, to put carelessly.
    We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.
    • 2018, “The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets”, in Bob's Burgers:
      Louise Belcher: "On Monday there was supposed to be some big schoolboard inspection or something, so instead of cleaning the place up, what does the principal do? He panics. He and the janitor and the janitor's brother slap a wall where the door used to be."
      Gene Belcher: "Wall slap."
  6. (transitive, informal, figurative) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
    I was slapped with a parking fine.
  7. (transitive, informal) To play slap bass on (an instrument).
    • 2007, Jon Paulien, The Gospel from Patmos:
      With no drums, Black began slapping his bass to keep time while Moore's guitar leaped in and out of the melody line.

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Adverb

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slap (not comparable)

  1. Exactly, precisely
    He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
      You just take my orders, Cap’n Hawkins, and we’ll sail slap in and be done with it.
    • 1864, Tony Pastor, John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs, page 63:
      They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!

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Adjective

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slap (comparative more slap, superlative most slap)

  1. (slang, UK) Very good, excellent, amazing.
    These cookies are slap.

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *solpъ.[1]

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Noun

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slap m inan

  1. (dated) rapid, shoot, chute, fall

Declension

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Declension of slap (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative slap slapy
genitive slapu slapů
dative slapu slapům
accusative slap slapy
vocative slape slapy
locative slapu slapech
instrumental slapem slapy

References

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  1. ^ Václav Machek (1968) “slap”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 552

Further reading

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  • “slap”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “slap”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “slap”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German slap, from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”).[1]

Adjective

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slap

  1. loose
  2. limp
  3. slack
  4. weak (muscles)
  5. flaccid
  6. lax
Inflection
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Inflection of slap
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular slap slappere slappest2
indefinite neuter singular slapt slappere slappest2
plural slappe slappere slappest2
definite attributive1 slappe slappere slappeste

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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slap

  1. past of slippe

References

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  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slap”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch slap, from Proto-Germanic *slap-, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”), see also Latin labō (“fluctuate, waver”).[1] Cognate with German schlaff and schlapp.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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slap (comparative slapper, superlative slapst)

  1. slack
  2. weak
    Synonym: zwak

Declension

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Declension of slap
uninflected slap
inflected slappe
comparative slapper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial slap slapper het slapst
het slapste
indefinite m./f. sing. slappe slappere slapste
n. sing. slap slapper slapste
plural slappe slappere slapste
definite slappe slappere slapste
partitive slaps slappers —

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Papiamentu: slap

References

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  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slap”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

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Khasi

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Slap

Noun

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slap m

  1. rain

References

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  • Singh, U Nissor (1906) Khasi-English dictionary‎[2], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 205. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *slāp. Compare Old English slǣp, Old High German slāf.

Noun

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slāp m

  1. sleep

Declension

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slāp (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative slāp slāpos
accusative slāp slāpos
genitive slāpes slāpō
dative slāpe slāpum
instrumental — —

Scots

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Noun

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slap (plural slaps)

  1. A gap in a fence.
  2. A narrow cleft between hills.

Verb

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slap

  1. (transitive) To break an opening in.

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *solpъ.

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Noun

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slȃp m (Cyrillic spelling сла̑п)

  1. (geology) waterfall

Declension

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Declension of slap
singular plural
nominative slȃp slápovi
genitive slapa slapova
dative slapu slapovima
accusative slap slapove
vocative slape slapovi
locative slapu slapovima
instrumental slapom slapovima

References

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  • “slap”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

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Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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  • ſlap (Bohorič alphabet)

Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *solpъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *salpás, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.

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Noun

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slȃp m inan

  1. (geology) waterfall
    Synonym: vodopad
  2. (by extension) a large amount of something falling or curving downwards
  3. (obsolete or regional) wave[→Snoj, 2016]
    Synonyms: val, prival, valček
  4. (obsolete) storm[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
    Synonyms: nevihta, divja jaga
  5. (obsolete) vapor[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
    Synonym: hlap
  6. (obsolete, Prekmurje Slovene) gale, storm[→Novak, 2014]
    Synonyms: veter, brisavica, vetrc, vetrček, vetrič, vetriček

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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate, -ov- infix) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular
nom. sing. slȃp
gen. sing. slapȗ
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik 		slȃp slapȏva slapȏvi
genitive
rodȋlnik 		slapȗ slapóv slapóv
dative
dajȃlnik 		slȃpu, slȃpi slapȏvoma, slapȏvama slapȏvom, slȃpȏvam
accusative
tožȋlnik 		slȃp slapȏva slapȏve
locative
mẹ̑stnik 		slȃpu, slȃpi slapȏvih slapȏvih
instrumental
orọ̑dnik 		slȃpom slapȏvoma, slapȏvama slapȏvi
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) 		slȃp slapȏva slapȏvi


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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing. slȃp
gen. sing. slȃpa
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik 		slȃp slȃpa slȃpi
genitive
rodȋlnik 		slȃpa slȃpov slȃpov
dative
dajȃlnik 		slȃpu, slȃpi slȃpoma, slȃpama slȃpom, slȃpam
accusative
tožȋlnik 		slȃp slȃpa slȃpe
locative
mẹ̑stnik 		slȃpu, slȃpi slȃpih, slȃpah slȃpih, slȃpah
instrumental
orọ̑dnik 		slȃpom slȃpoma, slȃpama slȃpi
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) 		slȃp slȃpa slȃpi


Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “slap”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “slap”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

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Noun

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slap m (plural slaps)

  1. (Peru) flip-flop, thong (Australia), jandal (New Zealand)
    Synonyms: bamba, chancla, (Venezuela) chola, (Argentina) ojota, (Peru) sayonara

Tày

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Tai *saːpᴰ.

Noun

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slap

  1. cockroach

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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slap

  1. in a quiet whispery, breathy, hushed voice
    phuối slap vạ căn ― to whisper each other

References

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  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
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