slapper
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See also: släpper
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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."
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (US): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslæpɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslæpə/
- Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]slapper (plural slappers)
- (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
- (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?
- (countable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A woman of loose morals.
- (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.
- (countable, slang, archaic) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]prostitute
female of loose morals
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Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slapper
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]slapper
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