wap

[wop, wap]

verb (used with or without object), wapped, wap·ping, noun

WAP

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

Origin of WAP

1995–2000

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Examples from the Web for wap

Historical Examples of wap

Wap; a bundle of straw; as a verb, to make up straw into a bundle.
English As We Speak It in Ireland
P. W. Joyce
There's an unco gude auld thing they ca', Wap at the widow, my laddie.
The Shepherd's Calendar
James Hogg
A wife was formerly rated at the highest unit of exchange, her value being a canoe, or a wap, or a waiwi.
Evolution in Art
Alfred C. Haddon
We purchased Some green fish, & wap pa to for which we gave Imoderate pricie's.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

British Dictionary definitions for wap

WAP

n acronym for

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

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Word Origin and History for wap

"a hit, a blow," late 14c., probably of imitative origin. The verb (late 14c.) originally meant "to throw quickly or with violence," and in slang c.1560-1730 it meant "to copulate" (usually used in reference to women).