lapward

adv

adv

Etymology From lap + -ward.

Toward a lap.

At home, one could conceivably reach down and flip on one’s new toy when one’s family member, despite having been admonished about texting friends at the dinner table, continues to peer lapward, hands curled around a tiny — but now ineffectual — keypad.2009 March 3, Alex Kuczynski, “Talk to the Hand”, in New York Times:

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