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Slip Slop Slap

Slip Slop Slap proper noun: a health campaign in Australia and New Zealand exhorting people to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat" when they go out into the sun in order to prevent skin cancer.

Proper noun

Slip Slop Slap (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A health campaign in Australia and New Zealand exhorting people to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat" when they go out into the sun in order to prevent skin cancer.
    • For example in Australia, the ‘Slip Slop Slap' programme (Slip on a shirt, Slop on sunscreen, Slap on a hat) has resulted in a marked reduction in the total of sunburns during the summer.1999, Gabriel A. Kune, Reducing the Odds: A Manual for the Prevention of Cancer, page 190

Forms of Slip Slop Slap

alternative formslip-slop-slap

Questions about Slip Slop Slap

What does Slip Slop Slap mean?
Slip Slop Slap means a health campaign in Australia and New Zealand exhorting people to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat" when they go out into the sun in order to prevent skin cancer.
What part of speech is Slip Slop Slap?
Slip Slop Slap is a proper noun.

Words near Slip Slop Slap in the dictionary

  1. slip road
  2. slip roads
  3. slip sheet
  4. slip sheet paper
  5. slip sheets
  6. Slip Slop Slap
  7. slip someone a length
  8. slip someone's mind
  9. slip steward
  10. slip stewards
  11. slip stitch

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