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skelp

(skɛlp)
vb
(tr) to slap
n
a slap
[C15: probably of imitative origin]

skelp

(skɛlp)
n
(Metallurgy) sheet or plate metal that has been curved and welded to form a tube
[C19: perhaps from Scottish Gaelic sgealb thin strip of wood]
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Skelp

 a heavy fall of rain.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

skelp


Past participle: skelped
Gerund: skelping

Imperative
skelp
skelp
Present
I skelp
you skelp
he/she/it skelps
we skelp
you skelp
they skelp
Preterite
I skelped
you skelped
he/she/it skelped
we skelped
you skelped
they skelped
Present Continuous
I am skelping
you are skelping
he/she/it is skelping
we are skelping
you are skelping
they are skelping
Present Perfect
I have skelped
you have skelped
he/she/it has skelped
we have skelped
you have skelped
they have skelped
Past Continuous
I was skelping
you were skelping
he/she/it was skelping
we were skelping
you were skelping
they were skelping
Past Perfect
I had skelped
you had skelped
he/she/it had skelped
we had skelped
you had skelped
they had skelped
Future
I will skelp
you will skelp
he/she/it will skelp
we will skelp
you will skelp
they will skelp
Future Perfect
I will have skelped
you will have skelped
he/she/it will have skelped
we will have skelped
you will have skelped
they will have skelped
Future Continuous
I will be skelping
you will be skelping
he/she/it will be skelping
we will be skelping
you will be skelping
they will be skelping
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been skelping
you have been skelping
he/she/it has been skelping
we have been skelping
you have been skelping
they have been skelping
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been skelping
you will have been skelping
he/she/it will have been skelping
we will have been skelping
you will have been skelping
they will have been skelping
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been skelping
you had been skelping
he/she/it had been skelping
we had been skelping
you had been skelping
they had been skelping
Conditional
I would skelp
you would skelp
he/she/it would skelp
we would skelp
you would skelp
they would skelp
Past Conditional
I would have skelped
you would have skelped
he/she/it would have skelped
we would have skelped
you would have skelped
they would have skelped
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TURNING up at the home of the European champions and skelping four goals past them is audacious enough but Neres's ridiculous piece of skill that left Dani Carvajal redfaced and scrambling could be considered just plain rude.
A punter sparked a bar brawl after battering a woman and skelping her with a packet of crisps.
Gary Mackay-Steven scored in the 4-1 skelping of the Saints and I'm backing him to do more of the same against his former club United.
When you go back to club football maybe we know each other too well and there's quite a number of a skelping games, you could say, where we are hitting hot and heavy.
As for claims about O'Neill "skelping" me in front of my peers.
So you would assume the thought of watching his merry band take a skelping or two from the Zurich Premiership champions would be the cause of his insomnia.
AARON MUIRHEAD admitted Falkirk's skelping by League One basement boys Stenny is the biggest humiliation of his career.
They also filled up hundreds of water balloons and we had great fun skelping each other for a few hours.
I'd be there all night, skelping them as they come back in up until midnight, ahead of training the next day.
CHARLIE MULGREW can still hear the thwack of Maurice Malpas skelping the back of Scott Brown's head with a soup spoon.
By all means film him in action but, if the interviews themselves were so crucial, surely the big brains of the Palace could have organised them out of the theatre of war and back home, within skelping distance of one's granny.
"We can't afford to let our heads drop because if we go into next week's game with Celtic feeling sorry for ourselves we'll get a real skelping."