Definition of Slap

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Definition of Slap
	Slap A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad. To strike with the open hand, or with something broad. With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly. Related Definitions: And, Blow, Broad, Directly, Given, Hand, Hence, Instantly, One, Open, Or, Quickly, Something, Strike, Sudden, The, To, Violent, With

Slap Quotations

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
Philip Pullman

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
Chris Tucker

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
Alan Ladd

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
Mel Gibson

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
Carter Burwell

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.
Max von Sydow

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
Liza Minnelli

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.
Sessue Hayakawa

Slap Translations

slap in Dutch is draai om de oren, oorveeg, lel
slap in French is battement, gifle
slap in German is schlagen, Klaps
slap in Italian is picchiare, ceffone
slap in Portuguese is batida
slap in Spanish is batido, guantazo, palmada

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