Definitions for skelp

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IPA: /skɛlp/

Skelp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in skelp (eklps).

Definitions for skelp

noun

  1. a slap, smack, or blow, especially one given with the open hand.
  2. the sound of such a slap or smack.
  3. metal in strip form that is fed into various rolls and welded to form tubing.

verb (used with object)

  1. to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
  2. to drive (animals) by slapping or goading them.

Origin of skelp

1350-1400; Middle English; probably imitative

Examples for skelp

I'm not a-going to have my skelp a-hanging to your belt for days and days, like the rest of them.

It was not every man, he proudly asserted, who could receive and survive a skelp o' the Deil's tail!

Hed admire to take a skelp, that Tomcat would, but hes shy the sand.

I heard one boy say to another:—'I'll give you a skelp (blow) on the puss.'

If dey'd piped me off den, dey'd have took me skelp, all right.

When Bob Mahony hit him the skelp on the head wid the sut bag, his eye popped out of his head on the road.

But they lifted off old Hodsie's skelp and left him out to die, And if it hadn't been for me, he'd been in the sweet by and by.

Some redskins haven't sense enough to let a skelp alone, but he has.

Kilt yer coats, ye cutty, and skelp at it withouten fear or dread!

That'll be safer fer my skelp, an' hit'll let less whisky out'n the hole.

Word Value for skelp
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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