Meanings
plural slappers
- countableOne who, or that which, slaps.
- CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableslangA prostitute.
You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper?
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 1671 more example
A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From slap + -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans hoer, slet
- hoerprostitute
- sletfemale of loose morals
Bulgarian проститутка, курва
- проститутка (prostitutka)prostitute
- курва (kurva)female of loose morals
Dutch hoer, slet
- hoerprostitute
- sletfemale of loose morals
French putain
- putainfemale of loose morals
German Nutte, Hure
- Nutteprostitute
- Hureprostitute
- Schlampefemale of loose morals
Scottish Gaelic strìopach, siùrsach
- strìopachprostitute
- siùrsachprostitute
- luidfemale of loose morals
- leodagfemale of loose morals
- reipseachfemale of loose morals
- slapagfemale of loose morals
Spanish puta, zorra
- putaprostitute
- zorrafemale of loose morals
- ramerafemale of loose morals
- putafemale of loose morals
Swedish hora, slampa
- horaprostitute
- slampafemale of loose morals
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with slapper
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Cite this entry
slapper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slapper
“slapper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slapper. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slapper,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slapper.
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