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- adjective music when
bass strings areslapped ratherplucked 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
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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
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Is this a slap-back at the Obama administration and the Democratic controlled House of Representatives and Senate?
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Are you opening yourself for a definitive slap-back?
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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.
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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
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It's actually quite tasty sounding, especially good for doing that "John Lennon" type slap-back on vocals.
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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
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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
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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
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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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