slap
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)
- (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
- He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie.
- (countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
- the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- back slap
- back-slapping
- bitch-slap
- bitch slap
- butt-slapping
- chain slap
- dickslap
- dope slap
- go slap off on
- happy slap
- happy slapping
- Iberian slap
- knee-slapping
- pimp slap
- pimp-slap
- slap and tickle
- slap-back
- slap bet
- slap bracelet
- slapdown
- slap fight
- slaphappy
- slap-headed
- slap in the face
- slap on the arm
- slap on the back
- slap on the hand
- slap on the wrist
- slap print
- slap shot
- slap skate
- thigh-slapping
- trout slap
- trout-slap
- turkey slap
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Verb edit
slap (third-person singular simple present slaps, present participle slapping, simple past and past participle slapped)
- (transitive) To give a slap to.
- She slapped him in response to the insult.
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
- Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.
- (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.
- He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
- (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.
- The rain slapped against the window-panes.
- (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent, especially when relating to music.
- 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.
- (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."
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- I was slapped with a parking fine.
- (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 edit
slap (not comparable)
- 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!
Synonyms edit
- just, right, slap bang, smack dab; see also Thesaurus:exactly
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
See also edit
- slap chip (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ap
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
slap
Inflection edit
Inflection of slap | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte 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 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
slap
References edit
- “slap” in Den Danske Ordbog
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slap”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
slap (comparative slapper, superlative slapst)
Inflection edit
Inflection of slap | ||||
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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 edit
Descendants edit
- → Papiamentu: slap
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slap”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Anagrams edit
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *slāp. Compare Old English slǣp, Old High German slāf.
Noun edit
slāp m
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | slāp | slāpos |
accusative | slāp | slāpos |
genitive | slāpes | slāpō |
dative | slāpe | slāpum |
instrumental | — | — |
Scots edit
Noun edit
slap (plural slaps)
- A gap in a fence.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:
- The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles, / That lie between us and our hame
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- A narrow cleft between hills.
Verb edit
slap
- (transitive) To break an opening in.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *solpъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slȃp m (Cyrillic spelling сла̑п)
Declension edit
References edit
- “slap” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Alternative forms edit
- ſlap (Bohorič alphabet)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *solpъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *salpás, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.
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Noun edit
slȃp m inan
- (geology) waterfall
- Synonym: vodopad
- (by extension) a large amount of something falling or curving downwards
- (obsolete or regional) wave[→Snoj, 2016]
- (obsolete) storm[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
- Synonyms: nevihta, divja jaga
- (obsolete) vapor[→Pleteršnik, 2014]
- Synonym: hlap
- (obsolete, Prekmurje Slovene) gale, storm[→Novak, 2014]
Declension edit
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate, -ov- infix), long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular | |||
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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 |
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate), fixed accent | |||
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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 edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “slap”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “slap”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slap m (plural slaps)
Tày edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɬaːp̚˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [θaːp̚˦]
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
slap
Etymology 2 edit
Adverb edit
slap
References edit
- 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