Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable)One who, or that which, slaps.

    a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang)A prostitute.

    Nutte, Hure

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

    Schlampe

  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.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. She's a bit of a slapper.

    deSie ist 'ne kleine Schlampe.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
prostitute:
female of loose morals:

Origin

From slap + -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary

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."

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Forms

plural: slappers
Singularslapper
Pluralslappers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand:spanker

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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