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Slan vs Slap - What's the difference?

slan | slap |

As nouns the difference between slan and slap

is that slan is healthy person while slap is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

As an adjective slan

is healthy.

As an interjection slan

is goodbye.

As a verb slap is

to give a slap.

As an adverb slap is

exactly, precisely.

slan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, fandom slang) A fan of science fiction.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1944 , first = John Bristol , last = Speer , authorlink = Jack Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html , chapter = F - Fascism , isbn = , page = , passage = The idea of a national government, covering all the slan race and nobody else, is seen in the many drives for a general fan organization. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1950 , date = September , author = Charles Stuart Metchette , title = Michigan Memories , magazine = Spacewarp , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp42-72.html , issue = 42 , page = 72–77 , passage = Here, at least once a month, the slans from Michigan gathered for sneak previews of forthcoming WARPS, to criticise some Rappian manuscript which Art was polishing for pro submission, or to talk about various subjects as fans are wont to do, and drink beer, pop, consume beans, dogs, chips, or eclairs. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1955 , first = Arthur , last = Koestler , authorlink = Arthur Koestler , title = The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays , isbn = , page = 143 , passage = gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, "slan " meaning a biologically mutated superman. }}

    Derived terms

    * fans are slans * slan center * slanhood * slannish * slanshack

    Related terms

    * Homo superior

    References

    * * ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Adjective

  • salty, saline

    • Declension

    References

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    slap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
  • The sound of such a blow.
  • (slang, uncountable) Makeup, cosmetics.

    • Usage notes

    Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

    Hyponyms

    * cuff

    Derived terms

    * bitch-slap * slap in the face * pimp-slap

    Verb

    (slapp)
  • To give a slap.
    • She slapped him in response to the insult.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.
  • To cause something to strike soundly.
    • He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
  • To place, to put carelessly.
    • We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

    Derived terms

    * slapper * slap-up

    Hyponyms

    * cuff

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Exactly, precisely
    • He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

    Synonyms

    * just * right * slap bang * smack dab

    Anagrams

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