slapper

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See also: släpper

English

Etymology

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."

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  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value GA is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈslæpɚ/
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  • Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)

Noun

slapper (plural slappers)

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

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Adjective

slapper

  1. (deprecated template usage) Comparative form of slap

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slapper

  1. (deprecated template usage) present of slappe