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Slap vs Thumping - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between slap and thumping

is that slap is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat while thumping is a dull, heavy sound.

As verbs the difference between slap and thumping

is that slap is to give a slap while thumping is present participle of lang=en.

As an adverb slap

is exactly, precisely.

As an adjective thumping is

exceptional in some degree.

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

    * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    thumping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Exceptional in some degree.

    • Noun

  • A dull, heavy sound.
  • * 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
  • A beating.
    • He received a thumping from the school bully.
  • * 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
    • And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
  • (sports) A heavy defeat.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation. }}

    Synonyms

    * (heavy defeat) thrashing

    Verb

    (head)