Slapper

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpÉ™(r)

Origin

For senses 3 and 4, 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."

Full definition of slapper

Noun

1. (countable) One who, or that which, slaps.
2. (countable, slang, dated) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
3. (countable, UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
4. (countable, UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) A woman of loose morals.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• lappers
• rappels