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slap noun- a beating UK
From the conventional use (to hit with an open hand); as with SPANK - That skinny geezer got a proper slap before he legged it out the door. — John King, White Trash, p. 149, 2001
- a prison sentence UK
From a conventional “slap” given as a punishment. - Wally is off to Albany to serve his sentence, and this time he’s copped a six-and-a-half slap. — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 139, 2000
- theatrical makeup cosmetics UK, 1860
You slap it on; theatrical; survives in the face of lighting technology that has made much makeup unnecessary. Also variant “schlep”. - [E]ffeminates flaunted their difference and henna and slap went with limp wrists and exaggerated walk and speech. — Maledicta, p. 225, Winter 1980
- [She] checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar[.] — James Gardiner, Who’s a Pretty Boy Then?, p. 123, 1997
- Her face is glowing red so much that you can see it under the white schlep. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 155, 1999
- Their tawny faces were cosmetic blackface, theatre “slap”. — Carol Chillington Rutter, Enter the Body, p. 7, 2001
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 190, 2002
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