slapper
UK/ˈslæpə//ˈslæpɚ/
slapper noun: one who, or that which, slaps.
Noun
slapper (plural slappers)
- One who, or that which, slaps.
- A prostitute.
- A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen
- You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper?2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 167
- A woman of loose morals.
- A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
- Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Forms of slapper
| plural | slappers |
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Origin of slapper
From slap + -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."
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Questions about slapper
- What does slapper mean?
- Slapper means one who, or that which, slaps.
- What part of speech is slapper?
- Slapper is a noun.
- How do you pronounce slapper?
- Slapper is pronounced /ˈslæpɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of slapper?
- The plural of slapper is slappers.
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