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lapward

lapward adverb: toward a lap.

Adverb

lapward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a lap.
    • At home, one could conceivably reach down and flip on one’s new toy when one’s family member, despite having been admonished about texting friends at the dinner table, continues to peer lapward, hands curled around a tiny — but now ineffectual — keypad.2009 March 3, Alex Kuczynski, “Talk to the Hand”, in New York Times

Origin of lapward

From lap + -ward.

Questions about lapward

What does lapward mean?
Lapward means toward a lap.
What part of speech is lapward?
Lapward is an adverb.

Words near lapward in the dictionary

  1. Laputa
  2. Laputan
  3. Laputans
  4. Lapuyan
  5. Lapwai
  6. lapward
  7. lapware
  8. lapwing
  9. lapwings
  10. lapwise
  11. lapwork

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