slapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /slæp/
• 韻: -æp

名詞

slap (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 slaps)

1. (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

   He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie.

2. (countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.

   the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles

3. (countable, music) The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
   • 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Havens goes into the terrific Freedom for an encore, which will turn out to be a highlight of the movie; its chopped guitar and conga slaps pre-empt late 90s R&B.

4. (slang, uncountable) Makeup; cosmetics.
   • 1997, Gardiner, James, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:

     Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

   • Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)

     If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.

5. (slang, countable) An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
   • 2019, Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell, The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime (page 859)

     […] which seek to retake public space for their own expression, using graffiti, stickering, 'slaps' and street art to dissent from the commercialisation of the public sphere.

下位語

• cuff

派生語

• bitch-slap
• dickslap
• pimp-slap
• slap and tickle
• slap in the face

動詞

slap (三人称単数 現在形 slaps, 現在分詞 slapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 slapped)

1. (transitive) To give a slap to.

   She slapped him in response to the insult.

   • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:

     Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.

2. (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.

   He slapped the reins against the horse's back.

3. (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.

   The rain slapped against the window-panes.

4. (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent.

   Synonyms: rule, rock

   The band's new single slaps.

   • 2019, "Glass Battles", PT Music Watch, Issue 1 (2019), page 35:

     There are some cinematic elements, but at the end of the day, the album fucking slaps.

   • 2019, Gloria Perez, "Your Things", Your Mag, April 2019, page 74:

     Also I will never get tired of the song "Motion Sickness" by Phoebe Bridgers. Shit slaps.

   • 2019, Elly Watson, "The Great 2019 Debate", DIY, November 2019, page 59:

     2016's 'Girls Like Me' still slaps to this day.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slap.
5. (transitive) To place, to put carelessly.

   We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

   • 2018 "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets", Bob's Burgers

     Louise Belcher: "On Monday there was supposed to be some big schoolboard inspection or something, so instead of cleaning the place up, what does the principal do? He panics. He and the janitor and the janitor's brother slap a wall where the door used to be."
     Gene Belcher: "Wall slap."

6. (transitive, informal, figurative) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).

   I was slapped with a parking fine.

7. (transitive, informal) To play slap bass on (an instrument).
   • 2007, Jon Paulien, The Gospel from Patmos:

     With no drums, Black began slapping his bass to keep time while Moore's guitar leaped in and out of the melody line.

下位語

• cuff

派生語

• slapper
• slap leather
• slap together
• slap-up

副詞

slap (not comparable)

1. Exactly, precisely

   He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

   • 1864, Tony Pastor, John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs (page 63)

     They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!

同意語

• just, right, slap bang, smack dab; see also Thesaurus:exactly

アナグラム

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, laps, pals, salp