Crossword clues for slap
slap
- Pass interference?
- Open-handed strike
- One way to play bass guitar
- Nominal punishment
- Mild censure, when on the wrist
- It's a hit
- It may cause indignation
- It may bring one back to one's senses
- Hit with the hand
- Hit with open hand
- Hit upside the head
- Hit on the wrist
- High five sound
- Hand cuff
- Fresh guy's comeuppance
- Duel preceder
- Deliver a blow
- Be openhanded with?
- Bass sound
- Backhand, e.g
- Apply hastily, with "on"
- A ___ in the face
- (How dare you!)
- "Stick" or "dash" leader
- "__ That Bass": Gershwin song
- ''Fresh!'' follow-up
- ___ bass (music technique)
- You do it to the bass
- Wrist action?
- Wordless reprimand
- Wordless "How dare you?!"
- Word with "happy" or "shot"
- Word before happy or stick
- Word before dash
- What some do to a bass
- Whack job?
- Way to play a bass
- Unpleasant reprimand
- Unpleasant rebuke
- Striking rebuke
- Strike with open palm
- Strike with open hand
- Stinging rebuke?
- Stick starter
- Start to stick or dash
- Sound of sails
- Sound before "Snap out of it!"
- Sort of shot
- Smacking blow
- Smack with the palm of the hand
- Single-handed rebuke
- Shot on the ice
- Shot on ice?
- Sharp response to an insult
- Sharp insult
- Sarcastic rebuke
- Rough the passer?
- Retaliation for a pinch
- Result of an incomplete pass?
- Result of a terrible pickup line, perhaps
- Response to impertinence, maybe
- Response to an unwanted pass
- Response to an insult, perhaps
- Response to a slight
- Response to a rude remark
- Response to a rude advance
- Response to a pass, perhaps
- Response to a nasty insult, maybe
- Response to a fresh overture
- Response to a come-on, maybe
- Response on the cheek to cheekiness, perhaps
- Rebuke, in a way
- Rebuke from Moe
- Reaction to an offensive line, perhaps
- Reaction to an insult
- Reaction to a fresh suggestion, perhaps
- Reaction to a fresh comment, perhaps
- React, as to an insult
- Pre-duel move
- Play bass like a funk musician
- Payback for a lewd remark, perhaps
- Painful reprimand
- Painful rebuff
- Openhand hit
- Open-handed assault
- Open handed hit
- Nonverbal response to an insult
- Noise from a high-five
- NHL shot
- Moe Howard move
- Moe blow
- Metaphorical slight
- Many a blocked shot in basketball
- Manual comeuppance
- Make red-faced?
- Ludacris song about hitting?
- Like a ___ in the face
- Lead to dash or happy
- Kind of stick or happy
- Kind of dash or stick
- Kind of dash or happy
- James Taylor "___ Leather"
- It starts off happy
- It might redden your face
- It might precede a duel
- Insult, so to speak
- Insult result
- Insult of sorts
- Injury to pride
- Indication of an offense
- Hysteria curber
- Hockey's __ shot
- Hit, as a double bass
- Hit, as a bass
- Hit with the palm of the hand
- Hit with the palm
- Hit with something flat
- Hit with hand
- Hit with an open palm
- Hit Stooge-style
- Hit openhandedly
- Hit openhanded
- Hit open-handedly
- Hit from a Stooge
- High-five, really
- High five, e.g
- High five
- Hard shot, in hockey
- Hard hockey shot
- Happy or stick
- Happy or dash
- Happy lead-in
- Hand-to-hand sound
- Hand to mouth, maybe
- Give an unexpected hand
- Gestural rebuff
- Fresh fellow's reward
- Flat handed blow
- Face paste?
- Ella Fitzgerald "___ That Bass"
- Duel provoker
- Duel invitation, perhaps
- Duel initiator, traditionally
- Doctor's application to a newborn's bottom
- Dash preceder
- Dash or stick preceder
- Cuff kin
- Clichéd response to an affront
- Challenge to a duel (using a glove)
- Certain shot in hockey
- Cause for a duel
- Carelessly affix (with "on")
- Cad's comeuppance
- Bit of Three Stooges comedy
- Big shot in hockey
- Before happy or stick
- Before a duel
- Be really good
- Bass-guitar technique
- Bass player's technique
- Assault like a Stooge
- Apply, in a way (with ''on'')
- Apply carelessly, with "on"
- Answer to Rick James's joke "What did the five fingers say to the face?" per an episode of "Chappelle's Show"
- Angry response to a pick-up line
- Alternative to a punch
- [You brute!]
- [What nerve!]
- [Don't do that!]
- ["You chauvinist pig!"]
- "You pig!" accompanier
- "Kiss With a Fist" lyric "You gave a kick, I gave a ___"
- "Fresh!" follow-up
- "Fresh!" accompanier
- "___ Shot" (Paul Newman hockey movie)
- "___ Shot" (1977 Paul Newman film)
- "___ Shot" (1977 hockey film)
- ____ on the wrist
- ___ with a fine
- ___ shot (hockey play)
- ___ on the wrist (minor punishment)
- ___ on the wrist (minimal punishment)
- Insult awfully pleasant chief
- Cuff's kin
- Masher's comeuppance
- Sharp put-down
- Smack in the face
- Big shot in ice hockey
- Put-down
- Personal affront
- Response to a pass?
- Midwife's action, perhaps
- Reply to a masher
- Prelude to a duel
- Affront
- Sharp rebuff
- Reply to an insult
- Sharp rebuke
- Certain hockey shot
- Blow for a bounder
- Response to an insult, maybe
- High-five sound
- Post-delivery delivery
- Not-so-subtle no
- Invitation to duel, perhaps
- Sound before "Thanks, I needed that!"
- Pass rejection?
- Duel preliminary
- Hockey shot sound
- Doctor's action to a newborn's bottom
- Response to an affront
- Sign of freshness?
- Indication of indignation
- High-five, e.g.
- Delivery after a delivery?
- Rebuke, so to speak
- Retaliation for a pinch, perhaps
- Hysteria curber, sometimes
- Response to a rude remark, maybe
- Unfortunate date ending
- Part of a Three Stooges routine
- [How dare you!]
- Part of a Three Stooges shtick
- What a cheeky one's cheek might get
- Response to freshness?
- Possible response to a grabby boyfriend
- Action to a newborn baby's bottom
- Affix carelessly, with "on"
- "How dare you!" accompanier
- An affront
- [How dare you?!]
- Bass technique
- Indicator of freshness?
- Sound of a high-five
- It's an affront
- *Obstetrician's action on a newborn's behind
- Throw (together)
- [You cad!]
- Quickly put (together)
- Many a hockey shot
- Come-on comeuppance
- Indication of freshness?
- A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- The act of smacking something
- A blow delivered with an open hand
- Kind of hockey shot
- Happy or stick preceder
- Rebuff a masher
- Open-handed blow
- Word with jack or dash
- It makes you smart
- Unkind words
- Wrist blow
- Kind of shot for Trottier
- Direct insult
- Insulted smack
- Word before stick or happy
- Word with stick or happy
- Cause of a duel
- Happy or dash preceder
- Preceder of dash or stick
- Kind of stick or shot
- Sail sound
- Light punishment
- Strike sharply
- Reaction to a pinch
- Duel starter
- Physical reprimand
- Word with happy or stick
- Word before dash or happy
- Open-hand hit
- Word with dash or stick
- Sharp blow
- POP, in a way
- Word with shot or stick
- Stinging blow
- "___ Shot," Newman film
- With 47 Down, Paul Newman film: 1977
- Blow by Zsa Zsa
- Censure
- Word with jack or stick
- Word with stick or dash
- ___ shot, in hockey
- Response to a kissing bandit
- Mates turned up in make-up
- Make-up friends rejected also a hit
- Strike with the palm
- Strike starts to seriously limit actual production
- Lift up cobber's clobber
- Returning friend’s bad make-up
- Hit with an open hand
- Hit with a flat hand
- Hit friends turning up
- Hit hard
- Open-handed hit
- __ shot
- ___ on the back
- High-five, e.g
- Unkind comment
- Hit sharply
- Duel prelude, perhaps
- Give a hand?
- Type of shot on ice
- Openhanded hit
- Assault from Moe
- Sarcastic comment
- Stinging response to an insult?
- Open-handed smack
- Happy start
- Token punishment
- Give a high-five to
- Reaction to freshness?
- Hit, in a way
- High-five, essentially
- Verbal jab
- Type of hockey shot
- Strike with an open hand
- Palm whack
- Offended smack
- ___ on the wrist (light punishment)
- Word with happy or dash
- Word with dash or happy
- Strike, in a way
- Strike with an open palm
- Response to a pickup line, perhaps
- Response to a masher
- Painful rebuke
- Painful indication of indignation
- High-five, for one
- High-five, basically
- Fresh reaction
- Critical comment
- Blow with a palm
- Word with stick or shot
- Suppress, with "down"
- Subdue, with "down"
- Strong rebuke
- Sharp smack
- Reaction to rudeness
- Mild punishment, when applied to the wrist
- Indignant reaction
- Hit, as with a fine
- Hit with a palm
- High-five, for instance
- High-five, for example
- Harsh welcome into the new world?
- Challenge to a duel, maybe
- Blow from Moe
- ____ shot
- Wrist-directed reprimand
- Word with stick
- Word with shot or dash
- Word with "stick" or "shot"
- Waves-against-dock sound
- Typical Three Stooges response
- Three Stooges blow
- Three Stooges assault
- Take a palm to
- Squeeze "___ and Tickle"
- Smack across the face
- Sharp hit, perhaps figurative
- Rude reply
- Response to rudeness
- Response to an unwanted advance, maybe
- Put (on) hastily
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slap \Slap\, n. [OE. slappe; akin to LG. slappe, G. schlappe; probably of imitative origin.] A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.
Slap \Slap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slapping.] To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.
Slap \Slap\, adv. [Cf. LG. slap, G. schlapp. See Slap, n.]
With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly;
directly. [Colloq.] ``The railroad cars drive slap into the
city.''
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "strike with the open hand," from slap (n.). As an adverb, 1670s, "suddenly;" 1829, "directly." Related: Slapped; slapping.
mid-15c., probably of imitative origin, similar to Low German slappe, German Schlappe. Figurative meaning "insult, reprimand" is attested from 1736. Slap-happy (1936) originally meant "punch-drunk." Slap on the wrist "very mild punishment" dates from 1914.
Wiktionary
adv. exactly, precisely n. 1 A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. 2 The sound of such a blow. 3 (context slang uncountable English) makeup, cosmetics. vb. 1 To give a slap. 2 To cause something to strike soundly. 3 To place, to put carelessly.
WordNet
Wikipedia
"Slap" is the fourth single from Ludacris' fifth album Release Therapy (2006).
Slap or Slapping may refer to:
- Slapping (strike), a method of striking with the palm of the hand
- Slapping (music), a musical technique used with stringed instruments
- Slap tonguing, a musical technique used on wind instruments
- Slap (professional wrestling), an attack in professional wrestling
- Slap, Tržič, a Slovenian municipality
- Slap!, a 1990 album by English band Chumbawamba
- "Slap" (song), a 2006 song by American musician Ludacris
- Saboted light armor penetrator, a family of ammunition designed to penetrate armor more efficiently than standard armor-piercing ammunition
- SLAP tear, a tear of the superior glenoid labrum from anterior to posterior
Usage examples of "slap".
Both these jobs, the mast and the se acock demanded that the boat be taken to a yard, but if I did that I risked some lawyer slapping a lien on her.
They winced when High Magus Adad slapped Marduk smartly across the face before setting the mitered crown on his head.
His hand slapped the panic button, sounding an alarm throughout the admin building.
By the time slaps on the back and a glass of water had been applied, Agatine was calm again.
Turning Alec loose, he sent him on his way with a resounding slap on the back.
Others milled happily around Alec, slapping him with their plumed tails and sniffing hopefully at the swans hanging at his saddlebow.
Both Arak and Sufa slapped their hands over their mouths in a vain effort to contain their laughter.
Her voice trailed off and Arra scowled out at the road, her frown deepening slightly at each slap of the windshield wipers.
Someone had slapped a careless coat of paint onto the walls, in a nursery-school pink that was no doubt supposed to make arrestees less likely to start fights.
He slapped his thigh and looked across to where Asch was staring into the fire, waiting for the kettle to boil.
He squirmed around the seat, slapped his fist against the car door, chewed at the cigar stump parked in the corner of his mouth, and made noises in the back of his threat which Asey decided were meant to indicate his, general state of incredulity.
Kate slapped her hand over her mouth as she realized how utterly asinine that sounded.
Five days had passed since the wizard had run the axolotls through the poultice, and Professor Wurzle was fit as a fiddle, as he liked to say while slapping himself on the chest.
Unbalanced by the wrenching change as his boot slapped onto a level surface, Arithon flung out his bandaged palm to catch himself short of a fall.
They banded my wrists, slapped a cortical come-along to my temple, and hurried me into the holding box in the rear of the vehicle.