lapper

plural lappers

1. One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

   The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.

   1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 470

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   ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.

   1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, page ?

2. in compoundsSomething (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.

   […] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.

   2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King, page ?

3. hobbiesA competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.

   June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.

4. One who wraps or folds.
5. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
6. nauticalA headsail that overlaps the mast.

present singular third person lappers · participle present lappering · participle past lappered · past lappered

1. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.

   There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.

   1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238

plural Lappers

1. A surname.