to attack, defeat, or destroy with sudden speed and force.
to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc.
to strike or jolt suddenly and forcefully.
to cook in a microwave oven.
to skip over or delete (TV commercials), as by switching channels or pushing a fast-forward button on a playback device: We recorded the show on our VCR but zapped all the commercials.
to add a sudden infusion of energy, verve, color, attractiveness, or the like (often followed by up): just the thing to zap up your spring wardrobe.
verb (used without object),zapped,zap·ping.
to move quickly, forcefully, or destructively: high-voltage currents zapping overhead.
noun
force, energy, or drive; zip.
a jolt or charge, as or as if of electricity.
a forceful and sudden blow, hit, or attack.
any method of political activism, usually of a disruptive nature.
1929 as a sound, 1942 as a verb, comic strip word (especially from "Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century"), of imitative origin. Meaning "to erase electronically" is 1982. Related: Zapped; zapping.
