slapper

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æpə(r)

Etymology

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."

Noun

slapper (plural slappers)

1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
2. (countable, slang, dated) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

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3. (countable, UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
4. (countable, UK, Ireland, slang) A woman of loose morals.

Derived terms

Terms derived from slapper

ankle slapper

knee slapper

thigh-slapper

Translations

prostitute

• Afrikaans: hoer (af)
• German: Nutte (de) f, Hure (de) f
• Scottish Gaelic: strìopach f, siùrsach f

• Spanish: puta (es) f
• Swedish: hora (sv) c

female of loose morals

• Afrikaans: slet (af)
• French: putain (fr) f
• German: Schlampe (de) f

• Scottish Gaelic: luid f, leodag f, reipseach f, slapag f
• Spanish: zorra (es) f, ramera (es) f, puta (es) f
• Swedish: slampa (sv) c

Anagrams

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Adjective

slapper

1. comparative form of slap