slapper
Meanings
Plural: slappers
Noun
- a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand
- "someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was"
- One who, or that which, slaps.
- A prostitute.
- A woman of loose morals.
- 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.
- Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Origin / 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."
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
slapper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordslapper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slapper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
slapper is a valid Words With Friends word