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slap

 
 
/slæp/ noun [C]

Translation

a hit with the flat, inside part of your hand
tokat, şamar, tokat atma
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a slap in the face something someone does that insults or upsets you
suratına bir şamar, tersleme, hakaret
After all that hard work, losing my job was a real slap in the face.1015
(Definition of slap noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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