Definitions for slap

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Spelling: [slap]

IPA: /slæp/

Slap is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in slap (alps).

Definitions for slap

noun

1. a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
2. a sound made by or as if by such a blow or smack:
3. a sharply worded or sarcastic rebuke or comment.
4. a gap or opening, as in a fence, wall, cloud bank, or line of troops.
5. a mountain pass.
6. a wound or gash.

Idioms

1. slap on the wrist, relatively mild criticism or censure:

adverb

1. Informal. directly; straight; smack:

Verb phrases

1. slap down, to subdue, especially by a blow or by force; suppress. to reject, oppose, or criticize sharply:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike sharply, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
2. to bring (the hand, something flat, etc.) with a sharp blow against something.
3. to dash or cast forcibly:
4. to put or place promptly and sometimes haphazardly (often followed by on):
5. to make a gap or opening in; breach.

Origin of slap

First recorded in 1625-35, slap is from the Low German word slapp, slappe; of expressive orig.

Examples for slap

When they were alone Mignon scorned to slap him at every turn.

Sometimes a great movie line has the impact of a slap in the face.

“Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.

Some said that she was still crazy about him and he had to slap her to make her leave him alone.

Not one among them dares to give the philistines a slap in the face.

Queen Raina of Jordan also spoke, calling the refugee crisis in Syria “a slap in the face of humanity.”

She leaned forward in the chair she had taken, and pretended to slap his hand crossly.

While that might just seem like a slap on the wrist compared to the cost of insurance, the penalty increases every year.

Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.

This slap at the professors delighted the young man's friends.