lapada

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈpa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈpa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈpa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐˈpa.dɐ/ [lɐˈpa.ðɐ]

Noun

lapada f (plural lapadas)

1. (Beira, Trás-os-Montes) a strike with a stone

   Synonym: pedrada

2. (colloquial) a slap
3. (colloquial, by extension) a usually indirect verbal attack, a roast

   Nossa, que lapada seca!

   Wow, what a sick roast.

Further reading

• “lapada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025