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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"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 Orton Lowe
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
“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
"Sir," he said, "I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan."
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
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 George Barr McCutcheon
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
"At your highest moment …be careful that's when the devil tries to come for you," the "WAP" rapper wrote on Twitter, echoing what Smith revealed Denzel Washington relayed to him after the heated exchange.
From Fox News ● Mar. 29, 2022
Cardi B, for example, chose not to submit her single WAP to the Recording Academy, despite it being one of the top-selling singles of 2020.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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 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
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 fetchd a web o the silken claith,Another o the twine,And they wapped them roun that gude ship’s sideBut still the sea came in.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
The helicopters were hovering overhead, their rotor blades wapping.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2018
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
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
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