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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)
- (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
- (countable) The sound of such a blow.
- (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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.
- He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
- (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.
- The rain slapped against the window-panes.
- (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.
- (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."
- 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."
- (transitive, informal, figuratively) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- I was slapped with a parking fine.
- (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)
- 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
- loose
- limp
- slack
- weak (muscles)
- flaccid
- lax
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
slap
- 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)
- slack
- 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
- sleep
Declension
Scots
Noun
slap (plural slaps)
- A gap in a fence.
- A narrow cleft between hills.
Verb
slap
- (transitive) To break an opening in.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *solp?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slâ?p/
Noun
sl?p m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (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
- (geology) waterfall
Inflection
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?lap/, [es?lap]
Noun
slap m (plural slaps)
- (Peru) flip-flop, thong (Australia), jandal (New Zealand)
- Synonyms: bamba, chancla, (Venezuela) chola, (Argentina) ojota, (Peru) sayonara
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thrash
English
Etymology
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Derived terms
- thrashel
- thrasher
Translations
Noun
thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
- (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- (music, uncountable) thrash metal
References
- (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
Anagrams
- Harths, harths
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English thrash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
- Hyphenation: thrash
Noun
thrash m (uncountable)
- (music) thrash metal, thrash
- Synonym: thrashmetal
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