Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Nautical To make secure by lashing: frap a sail.
- v. Nautical To take up the slack of; tighten.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strike; smite.
- Nautical, to secure by many turns of a lashing.
- To fly into a passion.
- n. A violent fit of rage.
Wiktionary
- v. To draw together tightly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
- v. To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
WordNet 3.0
- v. take up the slack of
- v. make secure by lashing
Etymologies
- Middle English frapen, to strike, from Old French fraper; see frappé.
Examples
“Â His intern, January, has been conscripted by Suzanne Padilla, a reporter who has been possessed by similar alien forces as Mitchell, to steal his frap-gun.”
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“Just as long as she gets onstage, exposes her frap bloat and lipsyncs horribly, I'm all for it.”
“At 2, my daughter would ask for "decaff vanilla frap.”
“Decided around lunchtime that I wanted some Starbucks coffee, and more specifically a frappucino, and even more specifically a Pumpkin Spice frap, so I made the trek across the street to get a cup.”
“I stop at Starbucks on the way back and get a Pumpkin Spice frap, take a few more pictures of Times Square, and then head into the hotel.”
“And your double venti triple frap half-caf twist of lime thing won't cost you four bucks.”
“His brother came in to get something and decided to get a green tea frap.”
“I said any schmuck who ordered fried shrimp and chocolate frap in a Jewish deli can't be all that bad!”
“MATTHAU: Well, I thought it was a Jewish delicatessen in Brentwood, where he was ordering fried shrimp and a chocolate frap.”
“And they got the frap ping nerve to call this the Imperial Suite?" he said in a loud, angry voice.”
Tek Net
chained_bear See also frapping. Oct 12, 2008
yarb At length, John, the tall Frenchman, the head of the starboard watch (and a better sailor never stepped upon a deck), sprang aloft, and, by the help of his long arms and legs, succeeded, after a hard struggle,-- the sail blowing over the yard-arm to leeward, and the skysail adrift directly over his head,-- in smothering it and frapping it with long pieces of sinnet.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25 Sep 9, 2008
chained_bear My favorite things to frap are bowsprits and jibbooms. But frapgammon was always a favorite. A greasy favorite, but still.
Moo. Feb 21, 2008
reesetee How about frapminton? Did you play frapminton? It's a frappin' good game. Feb 21, 2008
yarb We were always frapping gammon, my pals and I. "Do you fancy a game of frapgammon?" we would ask each other, when the tedium of our drab nonage grew unbearable.
Do you play frapgammon, cb? Feb 21, 2008
chained_bear But did you frap gammon?
Dude. That's frapped. Feb 21, 2008
yarb Carcasses, cars, asses: you name it, I frapped it. Feb 21, 2008
reesetee Did you frap carcasses? Feb 21, 2008
yarb I spent many happy hours frapping as a boy. Feb 21, 2008
chained_bear "...he reflected that if she could not be provided with new knees in the course of a thorough refit he might eventually have to frap her whole carcass, winding cable round and round until it looked like an enormous chrysalis."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 234 Feb 14, 2008