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slap | slappable |

As a noun slap

is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

As a verb slap

is to give a slap.

As an adverb slap

is exactly, precisely.

As an adjective slappable is

suitable for slapping.

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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    slappable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suitable for slapping.
  • * 2002 , Anthony Petkovich, The X factory: inside the American hardcore film industry
    • A mere glimpse of this 25-year-old's delicious olive skin — along with that wonderfully round, slappable ass; thick, wet lips, and huge, seemingly painted-on ruby eyes — would make any cadaver (with even half a stiffness in him) bubble his preservatives...
  • * 2003 , Donna Williams, Exposure anxiety — the invisible cage
    • Chair was not a picture, it was a felt shape, slappable , which didn't bounce back, with one kind of acoustic for molded plastic, another for vinyl, another for cloth, another for wood.
  • * 2008 , Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts
    • He's the quintessential slappable fat nerd trying to sound like a hard-ass.