Slap-back

adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
Adjective
  1. 1
    when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.

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