slaps

Noun

slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

1. (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.
2. (countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
   • the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles
3. (countable) The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
   • 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.2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian
4. (slang, uncountable) Makeup; cosmetics.
   • 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...1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123
5. (countable, slang) An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
   • […] 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.2019, Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell, The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, page 859

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