unslappable

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adjective

Not slappable.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunslappable (comparative more unslappable, superlative most unslappable)

comparative more unslappable · superlative most unslappable

  1. 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 76
    1 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

Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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