lapper
1 Americannoun
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of lapper1
First recorded in 1600–10; lap 3 + -er 1
Origin of lapper2
1805–15; Scots form of lopper 2
Example Sentences
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Once I told Dale that if he'd finish repairing my car for me, I'd let him take it to Nashville to race in a 200 lapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
On lap five, I ran into my first lapper and had to play it smart.�
From Time Magazine Archive
On lap fourteen, after Carmichael had moved around Reed, RC got stuck behind a lapper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hansen made the pass with a couple laps to go, only to get hung up behind a lapper and hand the lead back to Josh Grant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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