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slapstick

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See also: Slapstick and slap-stick

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From slap +‎ stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.

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Noun

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slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)

  1. (uncountable, comedy) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
  2. (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈslæpstik/, [ˈs̠læps̠tik]
  • Rhymes: -æpstik
  • Hyphenation(key): slap‧stick

Noun

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slapstick

  1. slapstick (physical comedy)

Declension

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Inflection of slapstick (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative slapstick slapstickit
genitive slapstickin slapstickien
partitive slapstickiä slapstickejä
illative slapstickiin slapstickeihin
singular plural
nominative slapstick slapstickit
accusative nom. slapstick slapstickit
gen. slapstickin
genitive slapstickin slapstickien
partitive slapstickiä slapstickejä
inessive slapstickissä slapstickeissä
elative slapstickistä slapstickeistä
illative slapstickiin slapstickeihin
adessive slapstickillä slapstickeillä
ablative slapstickiltä slapstickeiltä
allative slapstickille slapstickeille
essive slapstickinä slapstickeinä
translative slapstickiksi slapstickeiksi
abessive slapstickittä slapstickeittä
instructive slapstickein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of slapstick (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

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Further reading

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈslap.stik/
  • Rhymes: -apstik
  • Syllabification: slap‧stick

Noun

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slapstick m inan

  1. (comedy) slapstick (physical comedy)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Noun

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slapstick m (uncountable)

  1. slapstick

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.