slapback

noun

Etymology

From slap + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg- — “to bend
  2. inherited from *baką
  3. inherited from *bak
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as slapback — “slap + back

Definitions

  1. A kind of doubling echo with relatively long delay between repetitions of the sound, so…

    A kind of doubling echo with relatively long delay between repetitions of the sound, so that the individual echoes can be perceived.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slapback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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