lupper

A finger.

Noun Polari, plural normally

  1. A finger.
    • Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona. - 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Guest House (Round the Horne), season 3, spoken by Julian (Hugh Paddick):
    • What about your luppers? They size ten too? - 2015, Brian Fairbairn, Karl Eccleston, 1:52 from the start, in Putting on the Dish, spoken by Maureen (Steve Wickenden):
    • 'I'd be careful where you put your luppers, darling,' said Albert Slater. His right hand was tucked inside the silken folds of the dressing gown. Gun or knife? wondered Hanlon. - 2015, Alex Howard, A Hard Woman to Kill...

Origin

Apparently from Yiddish לאַפּע (lape)

Forms

luppers

Synonyms

finger

Noun countable, humorous

  1. A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and supper.
    • Working a 12:30 pm. to 9:00 pm. work shift raises the question: How can you tell the difference between the meals “linner” and “lupper?” Well, “linner” is closer to the normal lunch hour, and “lupper” is closer to...
    • “It's not lunch time or dinner time,” she said. It was almost four o'clock. “Have you eaten lunch?” She shook her head no. “Do you have plans for dinner?” Again. No. “Good. We'll have lupper.” “Lupper?” “Lunch and...
    • All I wanted to do was get out of my wet clothes, catch a little lupper and get some much-needed rest. In case you don't know what lupper is, it's the same thing as brunch only later in the day. Lunch and supper...

Origin

Blend of lunch + supper.

Forms

luppers

Synonyms

linner dunch

Related

brinner brunch brupper