slapper

See also: släpper

English

Etymology

slap + -er. For senses 3 and 4, 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

slapper (plural slappers)

  1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
  2. (countable, Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
  3. (countable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A woman of loose morals.
  4. (countable, slang, archaic) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑpər

Adjective

slapper

  1. Comparative form of slap

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slapper

  1. present of slappe
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