Meanings
comparative more unslappable · superlative most unslappable
- Not slappable.
Despite the family's attempts to rebuff her, Rosie kept popping up, buzzing at the margins of the family's life like an unslappable mosquito.
2020, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, New York, NY: Scribner, →ISBN, page 761 more example
But the Oscars host, Jimmy Kimmel, doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. His commercial promoting the Oscars includes several references to Rock, a former host himself. And the spot, a spoof of “Top Gun: Maverick,” explains that ABC was intent on finding an M.C. “who’s unflappable — and unslappable.”
2023 March 12, Stephanie Goodman, “How the Slap Has Changed the Oscars”, in The New York Times
Origin
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unslappable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unslappable
“unslappable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unslappable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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