intj
Meaning 1
The sound of sudden blow or hit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
whap
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
Pronunciation
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.
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rhymes with -æp
name
Meaning 2
Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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noun
Meaning 3
A blow; a hit; a whop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A breast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, colloquial
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noun
Meaning 5
The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 6
To strike hard and suddenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, transitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
Examples
- 1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180, He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big [...]
- She whapped down on the floor.
- The fish whapped over.
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verb
Meaning 8
hit hard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sock, bop, whop, bonk, bash
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Broader terms: hit
History
Etymology
Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.
Variant of whaup.