Entry · catalog no. 5369
slaps
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verb · Bay Area, California · 2026
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1.
Of music: to hit hard, to sound excellent, especially through deep, thumping bass. A song that slaps makes you move.
“Roll the windows down, this one slaps.”
Origin & Attribution
Bay Area hip-hop slang popularized during the mid-2000s hyphy movement — where a "slap" is a track with knocking low-end — and credited in large part to E-40. Now used nationwide and often taken for generic internet slang.
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Bay Area, California · 2026
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Bay Area, California
$SLAPSThe Record · cultural traction
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Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
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First used
2026
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Recorded here
2026
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Dictionary.com, "slap" — reference
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