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slapper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈslæpɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈslæpə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From 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."

Meanings

1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang) A prostitute.
   • A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore 2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:
   • You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper? 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 167:
3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang) A woman of loose morals.
4. (countable) A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
5. (archaic, countable, slang) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

Forms

Deriveds

Kappa slapper · knee slapper · thigh-slapper · wicker slapper · happy slapper · tank slapper · headslapper · ankle slapper · tank-slapper

Translations (25)

mk ку́рва (female of loose morals) · gd siùrsach (prostitute) · gd strìopach (prostitute) · nl hoer (prostitute) · es zorra (female of loose morals) · es ramera (female of loose morals) · fr putain (female of loose morals) · mk проститу́тка (prostitute) · af slet (female of loose morals) · gd luid (female of loose morals) · sv hora (prostitute) · gd reipseach (female of loose morals) · es puta (female of loose morals) · nl slet (female of loose morals) · sv slampa (female of loose morals) · bg проститутка (prostitute) · mk развра́тница (female of loose morals) · af hoer (prostitute) · es puta (prostitute) · de Nutte (prostitute) · de Hure (prostitute) · bg курва (female of loose morals) · gd leodag (female of loose morals) · de Schlampe (female of loose morals) · gd slapag (female of loose morals)