slap
/slæp/ verb B2- To strike someone, typically with an open hand, often on the face. · She slapped him in response to the insult.
- To cause something to strike soundly. · He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
- To strike soundly against something. · The rain slapped against the window-panes.
- To be excellent, especially when relating to music. · The band's new single slaps.
- To place, to put carelessly. · We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.
- To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone). · I was slapped with a parking fine.
- To play slap bass on (an instrument).
He/she/it slaps · Past slapped · Past participle slapped · -ing form slapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- slap
- He/she/it
- slaps
- Past
- slapped
- Past participle
- slapped
- -ing form
- slapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Little Toto, now that he had an enemy to face, ran barking toward the Lion, and the great beast had opened his mouth to bite the dog, when Dorothy, fearing Toto would be killed, and heedless of danger, rushed forward and slapped the Lion upon his nose as hard as she could, while she cried out:
A FLY bit the bare head of a Bald Man who, endeavoring to destroy it, gave himself a heavy slap.
“What ineffable twaddle!” I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, “I never read such rubbish in my life.”
Then suddenly he slapped his thigh in a paroxysm of amusement.
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