Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pancake; a flapjack.
- noun A card game in which each player tries to be the first to slap with the hand any jack that is dealt face-up.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
flapjack .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U.S. A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, dialect A type of
pancake , orflapjack - noun A simple card game similar to
snap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word slapjack.
Examples
-
About the time the last scrap of "slapjack" and the last spoonful of
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872
-
My husband's way, with his elementary water puddles that preceded those dug holes, seemed slapjack, slapstick, or simply slapped together -- as if he were making up the rules along the way.
garden, gardening 2009
-
No piece, no slapjack, no cuffs, no shank, no weapons of any kind.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
-
No piece, no slapjack, no cuffs, no shank, no weapons of any kind.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
-
No piece, no slapjack, no cuffs, no shank, no weapons of any kind.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
-
No piece, no slapjack, no cuffs, no shank, no weapons of any kind.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
-
She was wearing her gun belt and cuffs and slapjack and Mace.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
-
She was wearing her gun belt and cuffs and slapjack and Mace.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
-
She was wearing her gun belt and cuffs and slapjack and Mace.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
-
My husband's way, with his elementary water puddles that preceded those dug holes, seemed slapjack, slapstick, or simply slapped together -- as if he were making up the rules along the way.
garden, gardening 2009
treeseed commented on the word slapjack
Slapjack, also known as Slaps is a simplistic card game, generally played among children. It can often be a child's first introduction to playing cards.
Gameplay is as follows: a 52-card deck is divided into face-down stacks as equally as possible between all players. One player removes the top card of his stack and places it face-up on the playing surface within reach of all players. The players take turns doing this in a clockwise manner until a Jack is placed on the pile. At this point, any and all players may attempt to slap the pile to obtain it; whoever covers the stack with his hand first takes the pile and adds it to the bottom of his stack. Gameplay continues with hands of this sort until one player has acquired all of the cards.
_Wikipedia
February 18, 2008