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Slappable vs Swappable - What's the difference?

slappable | swappable |

As adjectives the difference between slappable and swappable

is that slappable is suitable for slapping while swappable is that can be swapped.

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.

    swappable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That can be swapped.
  • * 2001', Per Brinch Hansen, ' Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing to Distributed Systems - page 451
    • The resident data structures of the kernels serve as caches on the swappable databases maintained by the managers.

    Derived terms

    * hot-swappable