Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike; knock; beat; wallop; drub.
- To flap; flutter.
- To toss or throw quickly.
- To flutter; flap the wings; move violently.
- noun A smart stroke; a blow.
- To wrap; tie; bind.
- To bark; yelp.
- noun A bale or bundle, as of hay or straw.
- noun A shroud-stopper.
- noun A pendant with a thimble in one end through which running rigging is led.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A blow or beating; a whap.
- verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To beat; to whap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
blow orbeating ; awhap .
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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
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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.
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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 George Saintsbury 1889
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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 2009
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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.
Don't rush to judge officers in Takoma Park standoff Arlington Michael J. Bolton 2011
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Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan.
The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review Adam Thorpe 2010
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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.
Bits and pieces for end of Feb 2010 DAVID BISHOP 2010
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The new mobile website can be accessed at m.myspace.com and wap.myspace.com.
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He even asked me how I got my name and if I use the wap browser in my phone.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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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 2007
oroboros commented on the word wap
Paw in reverse.
November 2, 2007