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slap
1[ slap ]
noun
- a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- a sound made by or as if by such a blow or smack:
the slap of the waves against the dock.
- a sharply worded or sarcastic rebuke or comment.
verb (used with object)
- to strike sharply, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- to bring (the hand, something flat, etc.) with a sharp blow against something.
- to dash or cast forcibly:
He slapped the package against the wall.
- to put or place promptly and sometimes haphazardly (often followed by on ):
The officer slapped a ticket on the car. He slapped mustard on the sandwich.
verb phrase
- to subdue, especially by a blow or by force; suppress.
- to reject, oppose, or criticize sharply:
to slap down dissenting voices.
slap
2[ slap ]
noun
- a gap or opening, as in a fence, wall, cloud bank, or line of troops.
- a mountain pass.
- a wound or gash.
verb (used with object)
- to make a gap or opening in; breach.
slap
/ slæp /
noun
- a sharp blow or smack, as with the open hand, something flat, etc
- the sound made by or as if by such a blow
- a sharp rebuke; reprimand
- a bit of slap and tickle or slap and tickle informal.sexual play
- a slap in the facean insult or rebuff
- a slap on the backcongratulation
- a slap on the wrista light punishment or reprimand
verb
- tr to strike (a person or thing) sharply, as with the open hand or something flat
- tr to bring down (the hand, something flat, etc) sharply
- whenintr, usually foll by against to strike (something) with or as if with a slap
- informal.tr to apply in large quantities, haphazardly, etc
she slapped butter on the bread
- slap on the backto congratulate
adverb
- exactly; directly
slap on time
- forcibly or abruptly
to fall slap on the floor
Derived Forms
- ˈslapper, noun
Other Words From
- slapper noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of slap1
Origin of slap2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slap1
Idioms and Phrases
- slap on the wrist, relatively mild criticism or censure:
He got away with a slap on the wrist.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
After reading the news on her phone, Allen was afraid to speak, smarting from what felt as visceral as a slap to the face.
The change can be as simple as slapping a second mask over the one you already wear, or better yet, donning a fabric mask on top of a surgical mask.
The ProGrip for MagSafe attaches to your phone magnetically, so when you want to slap it on a MagSafe charger, you simply pop off the PopSocket completely.
Of course, those models have much more complex audio components inside and can cost thousands of dollars, so it’s probably best not to slap them on for a run around the neighborhood.
Now that users have been formally invited to slap Microsoft Flight Simulator onto their faces, I must strongly urge users not to do so—or at least heavily temper their expectations.
Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.
“Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.
While that might just seem like a slap on the wrist compared to the cost of insurance, the penalty increases every year.
Queen Raina of Jordan also spoke, calling the refugee crisis in Syria “a slap in the face of humanity.”
Sometimes a great movie line has the impact of a slap in the face.
"Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.
Slap through the town, whispered Sikes; therell be nobody in the way to-night to see us.
Black Hood let the clutch slap in and the roadster bounded back onto the tarvia drive.
This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return.
The man probably never knew exactly when the floor came up to slap the back of his lap.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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