Lapper

Quick meaning: Lapper is a noun meaning One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

Meaning

One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

More Meanings

1. (in combination) Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
2. (sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
3. One who wraps or folds.
4. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
5. (sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.
6. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.

Example Sentences

The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.

...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.

[…] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.

There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.

Word Forms

• lappers
• lappering
• lappered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lappy, tonguing, slurp, tonguer, licker, buttlicker.

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