"slap leather" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slaps leather",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapping leather",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapped leather",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapped leather",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "slap leather (third-person singular simple present slaps leather, present participle slapping leather, simple past and past participle slapped leather)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August 17, Stephen Hunter, “'American Outlaws': The Young And the West-less”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "[T]he western . . . provides a ready armature for other dramas that have nothing to do with slapping leather, riding horseflesh or kissing purty gals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, “Movies: Destry (1954)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger. . . . Though he prefers to talk rather than slap leather, Destry manages to keep the bad guys at bay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 April 20, Kelly Bostian, “Quick-draw cowboys face off to find Oklahoma's fastest guns”, in Tulsa World, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "With .45s strapped to their sides, gunslingers—30 men, six women, even an 11-year-old kid—slogged through the mud in their cowboy boots to reach a dirt-caked boardwalk where, one after another, they slapped leather to see who would reign as Oklahoma’s fastest gun.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a quick motion to draw one's handgun from its holster, especially in a duel in the Old West."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ],
        [
          "holster",
          "holster"
        ],
        [
          "duel",
          "duel"
        ],
        [
          "Old West",
          "Old West"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, idiomatic) To make a quick motion to draw one's handgun from its holster, especially in a duel in the Old West."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fill one's hand"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/En-au-slap_leather.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slap leather"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slaps leather",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapping leather",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapped leather",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slapped leather",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "slap leather (third-person singular simple present slaps leather, present participle slapping leather, simple past and past participle slapped leather)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "American English",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August 17, Stephen Hunter, “'American Outlaws': The Young And the West-less”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "[T]he western . . . provides a ready armature for other dramas that have nothing to do with slapping leather, riding horseflesh or kissing purty gals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, “Movies: Destry (1954)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger. . . . Though he prefers to talk rather than slap leather, Destry manages to keep the bad guys at bay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 April 20, Kelly Bostian, “Quick-draw cowboys face off to find Oklahoma's fastest guns”, in Tulsa World, retrieved 2015-07-07",
          "text": "With .45s strapped to their sides, gunslingers—30 men, six women, even an 11-year-old kid—slogged through the mud in their cowboy boots to reach a dirt-caked boardwalk where, one after another, they slapped leather to see who would reign as Oklahoma’s fastest gun.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a quick motion to draw one's handgun from its holster, especially in a duel in the Old West."
      ],
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        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ],
        [
          "holster",
          "holster"
        ],
        [
          "duel",
          "duel"
        ],
        [
          "Old West",
          "Old West"
        ]
      ],
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        "(US, idiomatic) To make a quick motion to draw one's handgun from its holster, especially in a duel in the Old West."
      ],
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        "US",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/En-au-slap_leather.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fill one's hand"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slap leather"
}