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Wore slap out
Meaning
- Being completely exhausted or drained of all energy. If you are wore slap out, you have absolutely nothing left in the tank.
Weary, descriptive
Used in a sentence
- I spent all day weeding the garden and I am wore slap out.
- Those kids played until they were wore slap out.
- After the long shift, the nurse was wore slap out.
The backstory
This is a classic Southernism. The word slap is used here as an intensifier, essentially meaning completely or entirely.
Heard in
The South
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