Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strike; knock; beat; wallop; drub.
- To flap; flutter.
- To toss or throw quickly.
- To flutter; flap the wings; move violently.
- n. A smart stroke; a blow.
- To wrap; tie; bind.
- n. A bale or bundle, as of hay or straw.
- n. A shroud-stopper.
- n. A pendant with a thimble in one end through which running rigging is led.
- To bark; yelp.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To beat; to whap.
- n. Prov. Eng. A blow or beating; a whap.
Examples
“Flag this comment berto April 06, 2010 at 11:09PM hey the president didnt say "wap" before dat shot, he said "wet" a commonly used expression describing a shot that doesnt touch the rim and makes the sound of hitting water….thats why u say "wet"…….that was bugging me”
“The term is profoundly masculine, for a "wap" is some evil-eyed foreigner who might disturb our picnic privacy, and his eradicator is a pistol.”
“The mordant wit, the easy, fluent, rippling style, so entirely free from boisterousness yet with constant "wap" of wavelet and bursting of foam-bubble; above all, the pure unadulterated faculty of tale-telling, must have found vent and play somehow.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
“This is actually a pretty huge advancement to opera for me, who honestly just uses opera as a second browser tweaked for using my phones wap over bluetooth (having a browser preconfigured with things like the wap proxy just saves me time, plus opera seems faster then firefox on endlessly slow connections by a tad).”
Opera 10 Beta Adds “Turbo Mode”, Visual Tabs | Lifehacker Australia
“To suggest, for example, as former FBI chief hostage negotiator Clint Van Zandt did - that a decision should have been made regarding which "officers should have their guns out and who would be the shooter" in the midst of the chaos, exacerbated by shouting, the deafening wap-wap-wap of helicopter rotors, and erratic chatter of police, medic and fire department radios from different agencies -- is reckless.”
The Washington Post: Don't rush to judge officers in Takoma Park standoff
“Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan.”
The Guardian: The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review
“Mobgold is one of the largest mobile ad networks which have been working with social network sites, content portals, iphone Apps developers or mobile operators to help them increase their revenue by serving mobile advertisement on their wap site, Apps or mobile internet channels in a very rewarding way.”
“The new mobile website can be accessed at m.myspace.com and wap.myspace.com.”
“He even asked me how I got my name and if I use the wap browser in my phone.”
“The wireless site can be accessed with a mobile browser at: wap. gc.ca or www. gc.ca”
Weather Info Now Available on Canadian Government Wireless Web Portal « ResourceShelf
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wap’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Ulysses
omphalos, inwit, junket, ashplant, ferrule, beldam, leman, gamp, omophorion, dun, coign of vantage, moiety and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wap.
oroboros Paw in reverse. Nov 2, 2007