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• wap
  wap

  verb (used with or without object)

  whop.
• WAP
  WAP

  noun

  wireless application protocol: a protocol for transferring documents, especially web pages, over a computer network to cell phones and other handheld wireless devices.

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Acronyms dictionary results for WAP.

wap

¹ American  

[wop, wap] / wɒp, wæp /

verb (used with or without object)

wapped, wapping

1. whop.

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WAP ² American  

[-wahp, wap] / wɑp, wæp /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. wireless application protocol: a protocol for transferring documents, especially web pages, over a computer network to cell phones and other handheld wireless devices.

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WAP British  

/ wæp /

acronym

1. Wireless Application Protocol: a global application that enables mobile phone users to access the internet and other information services

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Etymology

Origin of wap¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English wap, wap(p)e, whap; probably from wappen “to strike;” of imitative origin

Origin of WAP²

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

Seriously you will find it a good bosom friend in an easterly wind, a black frost, or when your country avocations lead you to face a dry wap of snow.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

Bobby maintained that if he read law at all, it was at night, for he wap too busy with other occupations during the day.

From Jane Cable by McCutcheon, George Barr

And it might be an adjective here; but that is not likely, seeing it is conjoined with the verb wap.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

"Go fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side, And let nae the sea come in."

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton

"Gae, fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side, And let nae the sea come in."

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry