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(in combination) Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King, page ?:
Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.
(sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
lapper (third-person singular simple presentlappers, present participlelappering, simple past and past participlelappered)
To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238:
There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.