wap
verb (used with or without object)
whop.
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wap
1 American
[wop, wap]
/ wɒp, wæp /
verb (used with or without object)
wapped,
wapping
WAP
2
American
[-wahp, wap]
/ wɑp, wæp /
noun
Digital Technology.
WAP
British
/ wæp /
acronym
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
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Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
“Gae, fetch a web o’ the silken claith,Another o’ the twine,And wap them into our ship’s side,And let na the sea come in.”
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
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 George MacDonald
"Gae fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side,75 And letna the sea come in."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"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 Henry Morley
Megan Thee Stallion is best-known for hits including Savage, WAP and Body.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
These three parks, along with Benin's W and Pendjari, form the 10,000-square-kilometre "WAP Complex".
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2022
Congress authorized WAP in 1976, just a few years after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries imposed an oil embargo against the U.S., causing energy prices to spike and inflation to climb.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
"Wassup with people saying they don’t shower? It’s giving itchy," the "WAP" rapper, 28, tweeted.
From Fox News ● Aug. 14, 2021
To WAP, v. a. to throw rapidly; to throw.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
“The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
They fetched a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And they wapped them round that gude ship's side, But still the sea cam in.
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
They fetched a web o' the silken claith, Anither o' the twine, And they wapped them round that gude ship's side, But still the sea cam' in.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
They fetched a web o' the silken claith, Anither o' the twine, And they wapped them roun' that gude ship's side, But still the sea cam' in.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
They fetched a web o' the silken claith, Another of the twine, And wapped them round that gude ship's side, But still the sea came in.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
The helicopters were hovering overhead, their rotor blades wapping.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2018
Forgotten him!" replied his kinsman, "what suld ail me to forget him?—a wapping weaver he was, and wrought my first pair o' hose.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Henry Cabot Lodge
At one great pull I brought up two wapping big fellows at a time, and trolled them on while Mr. Burke scooped them up.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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