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slapper

See also: släpper

English

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Etymology

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From slap +‎ -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."

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Noun

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slapper (plural slappers)

 
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  1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
  2. (countable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A prostitute.
    • 2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook (lyrics and music), “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:
      A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 167:
      You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper?
  3. (countable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A woman of loose morals.
  4. (countable, military) A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
  5. (countable, slang, archaic) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

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Adjective

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slapper

  1. comparative degree of slap

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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slapper

  1. present of slappe
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