lapward

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adverb

Toward a lap.

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Meanings

adverblapward (not comparable)
  1. not comparableToward a lap.

    At home, one could conceivably reach down and flip on one’s new toy when one’s family member, despite having been admonished about texting friends at the dinner table, continues to peer lapward, hands curled around a tiny — but now ineffectual — keypad.

    2009 March 3, Alex Kuczynski, “Talk to the Hand”, in New York Times

Origin

From lap + -ward.

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Cite this entry
APA

lapward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lapward

MLA

“lapward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lapward. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lapward,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lapward.

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