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lapper en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From lap + -er.

Meanings

1. One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
   • ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat. 1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, page ?:
   • The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood. 1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 470:
2. (in-compounds) Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
   • […] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior. 2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King, page ?:
3. A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
   • June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.
4. One who wraps or folds.
5. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
6. A headsail that overlaps the mast.

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Deriveds

gap lapper · cunt-lapper · lapper-milk · cuntlapper · gap-lapper

lapper en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
   • There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side. 1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238:

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