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

He's done him to her father's stable, Where steeds stood baith wicht and able; Then he strake ane upon the back,35 The swiftest gae his head a wap.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

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

There wap no dispute as to the fact that the younger petitioner, W.H.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

North cone's up on t' flagstaff, ��� There's a cap-full o' wind i' t' bay; T' waves wap loud on t' harbour bar, ��� Thoo can hardlins fish to-day.

From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William