Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Initialism of Democratic Action Party, a Malaysian centre-left political party.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A plimsoll.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Wales, West-Country, plural-normally
Qualifier: Somerset; Bristol; Somerset; Bristol
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noun
A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, carpentry, construction, manufacturing
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noun
Vulva or vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: originally
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noun
A fist bump.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: dab
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noun
Initialism of digital audio player.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of double anal penetration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable, vulgar
Topics: lifestyle, media, pornography, sexuality
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phrase
Initialism of Delivered At Place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
To run or go somewhere quickly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Bristol
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verb
To create a hollow indentation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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verb
To greet with a dap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.
US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump. Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely.
