lapwise

Adverb

1. On a lap.
   • Despite their name, laptops seem to rarely be used lapwise.
   • The man rushed through it just in time to leave beside the road a volcanic eruption that to have been the recipient of which, lapwise, would have made the trip memorable indeed. - 1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham's...
   • Thank goodness the cat took about half the coffee—which she certainly deserved. Things could have been a lot worse for me had she not been situated exactly where she was, lapwise, and anyway her hair grew back rather...