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blapses

blapses is the plural of blaps.

Meaning of blaps

Noun

blaps (plural blapses)

  1. (South Africa, informal) A blunder, a mistake.
    • It seems to me that those are the kind of mistakes that might be made by somebody who does not have English as a first language - and I believe that Feri is such a person. ¶ Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an argument?2007 October 20, Bob Dubery, “Re: Has anybody else noticed?”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet)

Questions about blapses

What is blapses the plural of?
Blapses is the plural of blaps.

Words near blapses in the dictionary

  1. blaow
  2. BLAP
  3. blaphart
  4. blapharts
  5. blaps
  6. blapses
  7. blare
  8. blare out
  9. blared
  10. blared out
  11. blares

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