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SLAPPER
Definition of SLAPPER
noun
One who, or that which, slaps.
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Where it comes from
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."
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLAPPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
Built from these letters
SLAPPER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AELPPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLAPPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SLAPPER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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