die Schlappe

B1 Noun frequency rank #10,494

What Schlappe means

Noun

defeat, flop, disadvantageous outcome (in a game, election, contest, battle etc.)
slide, slipper (one of a pair of footwear open in the back, a shoe from which the back has been cut off)

Forms

die Schlappe · die Schlappen

Plural: Schlappen

Pronunciation

Schlappe in a sentence

Die Partei musste bei der Wahl eine schwere Schlappe hinnehmen.

The party had to accept a heavy defeat in the election.

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Schlappe is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,494 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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