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the original notification sound, delivered palm-first and impossible to mute
means To strike something sharply with an open hand or flat surface, or the sharp sound such a blow makes.
from An echo word — 'slap' is what linguists call imitative, born to mimic the very noise it names, the flat crack of palm on cheek. It surfaced in English by the 17th century and has cousins across the Germanic languages, like German 'Schlappe,' all of them sounding out the same percussive smack.
- speed
- open-hand strikes can travel over 60 mph
- diplomacy
- the gauntlet slap once formally launched duels
- music
- slang for a song that absolutely goes hard
- newborns
- the classic delivery-room slap is mostly Hollywood myth
- defibrillation
- precordial thump is basically a CPR-approved chest slap
for instance
the slap — will smith hit chris rock at the 2022 oscars after a joke about jada pinkett smith
slap bass — technique popularized by larry graham in the 1960s with sly and the family stone