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- noun Plural form of
lapper . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lapper .
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Examples
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The victory lappers, which include -- have you noticed?
Cheney Takes On Torture, The Flaws Of The Iraqi People, And The Deaths In Iraq 2009
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This isn't about Democrats and Republicans, it's about effete latte-lappers who prefer Chicken-Little responses to preparedness.
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At the 1874 meeting of the Vegetarian Society, one speaker used terms like "blood-lappers" and "patronizers of slaughter-houses" to refer to those who ate meat.
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At the 1874 meeting of the Vegetarian Society, one speaker used terms like "blood-lappers" and "patronizers of slaughter-houses" to refer to those who ate meat.
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And then they put me in the other room, and I learned to run stuff in the card room, cards, lappers, drawings, frames, all that stuff.
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I stayed on them lappers for, I don't know, several years on daytime.
Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes John Wesley Snipes 1976
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She had seen it torn by the bale-breakers, blown into the openers, loosened, cleansed, and dried; taken up by the lappers, pressed into batting, and passed on to the carding machines, to emerge like a wisp of white smoke in a sliver and coil automatically in a can.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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She had seen it torn by the bale-breakers, blown into the openers, loosened, cleansed, and dried; taken up by the lappers, pressed into batting, and passed on to the carding machines, to emerge like a wisp of white smoke in a sliver and coil automatically in a can.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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She had seen it torn by the bale-breakers, blown into the openers, loosened, cleansed, and dried; taken up by the lappers, pressed into batting, and passed on to the carding machines, to emerge like a wisp of white smoke in a sliver and coil automatically in a can.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Injuns 'll cool their lappers as they go down south'ard.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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