different between jab vs slap

jab

English

Etymology

Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (peck, poke, thrust), from Middle English jobben.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?æb/
  • Rhymes: -æb

Noun

jab (plural jabs)

  1. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
    • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
      He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
  2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
  3. (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
    Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
  4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
  5. (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.

Derived terms

  • jabby

Translations

Verb

jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)

  1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  2. To deliver a quick punch.
  3. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection

Translations

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary


Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)

  1. job, piece of work
  2. post, employment

Declension

Derived terms

  • jabaire m ((cattle-)jobber)

References

  • "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jab.

Noun

jab m (invariable)

  1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

  1. (boxing) jab

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slap

English

Etymology

From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (slap), whence also German Schlappe (defeat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slæp/
  • Rhymes: -æp

Noun

slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

  1. (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
  2. (countable) The sound of such a blow.
  3. (slang, uncountable) Makeup; cosmetics.

Usage notes

Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

Hyponyms

  • cuff

Derived terms

  • bitch-slap
  • dickslap
  • pimp-slap
  • slap and tickle
  • slap in the face

Translations

Verb

slap (third-person singular simple present slaps, present participle slapping, simple past and past participle slapped)

  1. (transitive) To give a slap to.
    She slapped him in response to the insult.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
      Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.
  2. (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.
    He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
  3. (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.
    The rain slapped against the window-panes.
  4. (intransitive, slang) To be excellent.
    The band's new single slaps.
    • 2019, "Glass Battles", PT Music Watch, Issue 1 (2019), page 35:
      There are some cinematic elements, but at the end of the day, the album fucking slaps.
    • 2019, Gloria Perez, "Your Things", Your Mag, April 2019, page 74:
      Also I will never get tired of the song "Motion Sickness" by Phoebe Bridgers. Shit slaps.
    • 2019, Elly Watson, "The Great 2019 Debate", DIY, November 2019, page 59:
      2016's 'Girls Like Me' still slaps to this day.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slap.
  5. (transitive) To place, to put carelessly.
    We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.
    • 2018 "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets", Bob's Burgers
      Louise Belcher: "On Monday there was supposed to be some big schoolboard inspection or something, so instead of cleaning the place up, what does the principal do? He panics. He and the janitor and the janitor's brother slap a wall where the door used to be."
      Gene Belcher: "Wall slap."
  6. (transitive, informal, figuratively) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
    I was slapped with a parking fine.
  7. (transitive, informal) To play slap bass on (an instrument).

Hyponyms

  • cuff

Derived terms

  • slapper
  • slap leather
  • slap together
  • slap-up

Translations

Adverb

slap (not comparable)

  1. Exactly, precisely
    He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.
    • 1864, Tony Pastor, ?John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs (page 63)
      They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!

Synonyms

  • just, right, slap bang, smack dab; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Translations

Anagrams

  • ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, laps, pals, salp

Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ap

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German slap

Adjective

slap

  1. loose
  2. limp
  3. slack
  4. weak (muscles)
  5. flaccid
  6. lax
Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

slap

  1. past tense of slippe

References

  • “slap” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slap. Cognate with German schlaff and schlapp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sl?p/
  • Hyphenation: slap
  • Rhymes: -?p

Adjective

slap (comparative slapper, superlative slapst)

  1. slack
  2. weak

Inflection

Derived terms

  • slapheid
  • slapjanus
  • slappeling
  • slapperik
  • slapte
  • verslappen

Anagrams

  • plas

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sl?p. Compare Old English sl?p, Old High German sl?f.

Noun

sl?p m

  1. sleep

Declension



Scots

Noun

slap (plural slaps)

  1. A gap in a fence.
  2. A narrow cleft between hills.

Verb

slap

  1. (transitive) To break an opening in.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solp?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slâ?p/

Noun

sl?p m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. (geology) waterfall

Declension

References

  • “slap” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solp?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slá?p/

Noun

sl?p m inan

  1. (geology) waterfall

Inflection


Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /es?lap/, [es?lap]

Noun

slap m (plural slaps)

  1. (Peru) flip-flop, thong (Australia), jandal (New Zealand)
    Synonyms: bamba, chancla, (Venezuela) chola, (Argentina) ojota, (Peru) sayonara

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