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  • adjective music when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
  • noun sports, aerial freestyle skiing a faulty landing, whereby the skier rotates backwards around the knee-joint and hits the snow of the landing slope with their back and head, before rising off the snow back into position with their skis underneath them.

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Examples

  • People in the public believe that this collective-bargaining bill was a Republican overreach, and now you're going to see a sort of slap-back reaction.

    Ohio GOP may invite backlash with tough stance on unions 2011

  • Is this a slap-back at the Obama administration and the Democratic controlled House of Representatives and Senate?

    Why so many Democratic losses? 2009

  • Are you opening yourself for a definitive slap-back?

    Evidence is mounting against Harris 2006

  • It was clear that the two candidates decided not to replay their South Carolina squabble or duplicate the cross-talking Romney-McCain slap-back from the previous night's GOP debate.

    Tom Alderman: The Blitzer Blitz -- The Real TV Debate 2008

  • And if the litigation effort is premised on a lousy patent, people should have a place to turn to slap-back an over-zealous patentee.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Peter Zura 2005

  • It's actually quite tasty sounding, especially good for doing that "John Lennon" type slap-back on vocals.

    Oil-Can Delays from the 1960s 2004

  • Try duplicating a track (highlight it and choose Duplicate Track from the Track menu) and moving its contents just a bit ahead of the original track, for a quick slap-back echo effect.

    Macworld David Weiss 2010

  • The sparse production with minimal instrumentation and the heavy use of slap-back echo are also nods to the glam rock sound of early-'70s Bowie and T.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories scott4261 2010

  • The sparse production with minimal instrumentation and the heavy use of slap-back echo are also nods to the glam rock sound of early-'70s Bowie and T.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories scott4261 2010

  • Try duplicating a track (highlight it and choose Duplicate Track from the Track menu) and moving its contents just a bit ahead of the original track, for a quick slap-back echo effect.

    Macworld 2010

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