slap-back

  1. Adjective.  (music) when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
  2. Noun.  (sport, aerial freestyle skiing) 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.

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