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  2. Slapping (strike) - Wikipedia

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    Man being slapped Officer Dan Roman (played by John Wayne) slaps Captain John Sullivan (played by Robert Stack) in a scene from the 1954 film The High and the Mighty. Slapping or smacking is striking a person with the open palm of the hand, in a movement known as a slap or smack. [1] [2] A backhand uses the back of the hand instead of the palm.

  3. Low five - Wikipedia

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    The low five is a hand gesture when two people slap palms together. One party extends an open palm, face upward at about waist level, the other party strikes the palm in a downward swing with their open palm. It is sometimes known as "slapping five", "give me five", or "giving/slapping skin".

  4. Facepalm - Wikipedia

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    SMH is an Internet slang term commonly interpreted as "shaking my head" and has an associated emoji. Head desk: Expressing great frustration by striking the forehead against something, usually a desk or a wall. [15] Whereas the "head desk" gesture is typically done successive times to emphasize the motion, the facepalm gesture is usually a ...

  5. The Gen Z glossary for Gen X managers: Here’s what your ...

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    That slaps / Hits different If something slaps, it’s very good. The term originally came from the Hip Hop scene to describe a hit, but today people are using it to describe everything from their ...

  6. Giving dap - Wikipedia

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    A variation on a dap greeting, 2009. The practice and term originated among black soldiers during the Vietnam War as part of the Black Power movement. [3] [4] Ninety percent of those imprisoned in the Long Binh Jail during the war were African Americans; it was in the jail that the handshake was created under pan-African nationalist influences.

  7. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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    The second more direct origin of the current usage comes from 1914 when James Joyce used the Irish slang gas to describe joking or frivolity. During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by ...

  8. Bras d'honneur - Wikipedia

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    To perform the gesture, an arm is bent in an L-shape, with the fist pointing upwards. The other hand grips or slaps the biceps of the bent arm as it is emphatically raised to a vertical position. The bras d'honneur is known by various names in different languages, including the Iberian slap, [a] forearm jerk, Italian salute, [b] or Kozakiewicz ...

  9. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...