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    verb (used with or without object)
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    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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wap

1 American  
[wop, wap] / wɒp, wæp /

verb (used with or without object)

wapped, wapping
  1. whop.


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.


WAP British  
/ wæp /

acronym

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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,And let na the sea come in.”

From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang

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

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 J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

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

From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth

These three parks, along with Benin's W and Pendjari, form the 10,000-square-kilometre "WAP Complex".

From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2022

The boost to WAP comes amidst an embargo on Russian oil, soaring energy prices, and rising inflation — circumstances strikingly similar to those when WAP was created in the 1970s.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022

The singer, known for hits including I Like It, Money and WAP, was subjected to a "malicious campaign" of false accusations by Kebe.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022

"Wassup with people saying they don’t shower? It’s giving itchy," the "WAP" rapper, 28, tweeted after several stars admitted that daily showers just aren’t necessary in their household.

From Fox News ● Aug. 11, 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,   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

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 roun' that gude ship's side, But still the sea cam' in.

From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty

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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