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Zapper vs Lapper - What's the difference?

zapper | lapper |

As nouns the difference between zapper and lapper

is that zapper is a remote control for a television while lapper is one who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

As a verb lapper is

to make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.

zapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
  • A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
    • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
  • * 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
    • You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .

    lapper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1913 , author=William Atherton Du Puy , title= Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=? , passage=...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1827 , author=? , title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=470 , passage=The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.}}
  • (in combination'') something (especially a race) that is a stated number of laps e.g. ''a 25-lapper
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Tim Bongard , title= Richard Petty: The Cars of the King , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=? , passage=...Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.}}
  • (sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
  • * June 2006 , RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
    • After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home..
  • A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine
  • (sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1900? , author=S.R. Crockett , title=The Red Axe , chapter=XXXVII citation , isbn=0543961451 , page=238 , passage=There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.}}

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Verb

    (roa-jer-verb)
  • to lap (a liquid)

    • Synonyms

    * (l)