lapper

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

Noun

  1. One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
    • ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat. - 1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, page ?:
    • The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood. - 1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 470:
  2. Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
    • […] 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. - 2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King,...
  3. A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
    • June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was...
  4. One who wraps or folds.
  5. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
  6. A headsail that overlaps the mast.

Origin

Etymology tree English lap English -er English lapper From lap + -er.

Forms

lappers

Derived

cunt-lapper cuntlapper gap-lapper gap lapper lapper-milk

Verb

  1. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
    • 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. - 1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in...

Forms

lappers lappering lappered