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Slappy - What does it mean?

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slappy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling a slap, especially of sound.
  • * 1855 , Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
  • *:Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh
  • * 1963 , Delphin Rose Adsett, A magpie sings
  • *:Katy thought about the damp yellow bodies which often landed, with a slappy sound in a burst of moisture and steam rose off them because they were parted from the warmth of their mothers.
  • * 1998 , Dan Gelo, Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin - Page 11
    • Thin picks flex too much and make your wrist work overtime, plus they tend to produce a slappy tone. Those heavy picks popular with today's bluegrass mandolinists are really too stiff for playing the rapid triplets in some Irish tunes.
  • * 2009 , Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon - Page 55
    • Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
  • *:"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy , unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.

    • Noun

    (slappies)
  • (skateboarding) A grind on a curb without doing an ollie.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.