Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) a drunkard; also as adj. and adv.

1959		J.M. Meiring Candle in the Wind 7: Only three little drinks today and he had called her a drunkard. A drank-lap!
1975		S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 10: Their father is a dronklap who makes the A.C.F. outjies laugh by carrying a brandy cork around in his pocket and taking it for sniffs.
1980		A. Dangor ‘Waiting for Leila’ in Mutloatse Forced Landing 165: Hey you fokken dronklap!
1989		P. Slabolepszy ‘Smallholding’ in Mooi Street (1994) 239: I’ll have no son of mine a dronk-lap bastard!
2004		B.M. Murphy Knitter’s Gift 79: The who’s who of the Sandton set, dripping with diamonds and gushing Gucci as they fell dronklap into the swimming pool.
2006		M. Orford Like Clockwork 140: My mother was a dronklap who forgot to feed me when I was baby and who loaned my sister out to any ‘uncle’ who would buy her a dop.