frap

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  1. transitive verb Nautical To make secure by lashing: frap a sail.
  2. transitive verb Nautical To take up the slack of; tighten.

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  • One tiny spark of self-determination flared up in the back of her mind, demanding What the frap is going on here? —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
  • She meets with Fray's big sister, a future cop, who distracts her for a moment before she gets frap-gunned down by … —  Major Spoilers
  • And then she sips her frap and shrugs and lays down the track and goes back home. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Call it the Hills syndrome: The soapy tribulations of a group of camera-ready unknowns capture the public's imagination (or lack thereof), which leads to media coverage, which leads to paparazzi interest, which leads to ... said unknowns becoming celebrities who can't pick up a nonfat Starbucks frap or have a tear-stained catfight in an exclusive nightclub without someone being there to capture it. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Don't worry about it Bamboo Banga, just look at my pic, wet your finger and frap yourself into a frenzy: oP
 

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  1. Middle English frapen, to strike, from Old French fraper; see frappé.

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  1. In def, I., 1, a variant of earlier frape, q. v.; in def. I., 2, directly from French frapper, strike, knock, nautical fix, fasten: see frape.
  2. from frap, v.
 

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