slap
/slæp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie."
- "the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles"
- "Havens goes into the terrific Freedom for an encore, which will turn out to be a highlight of the movie; its chopped guitar and conga slaps pre-empt late 90s R&B."
- "Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy."
- "If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look."
- "[…] which seek to retake public space for their own expression, using graffiti, stickering, 'slaps' and street art to dissent from the commercialisation of the public sphere."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slappen
Usage
Inflected Forms
slaps (plural)
slaps (present, singular)
slapping (participle, present)
slapped (participle, past)
slapped (past)
more slap (comparative)
most slap (superlative)