bap

plural baps

1. A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland.

   burger bap

2. IrelandUKin pluralslangA woman's breast.
3. IrelandslangThe head.

   He lost the bap.

   He became angry.

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   Mrs Dudley came bouncing back, hand swinging, big stain on her right bap like she'd been shot or Da had got at her in an alleyway.

   2014, Kelly Creighton, The Bones of It

4. humorousA friend or buddy.

1. informalThe sound of a light blow or slap.

   Damian rolls Mr. McNutt over and beats the tar out of him with a series of punches, glasses on or not. BAP! BAP! SMACK! BAP! BAP! "You and your men are going to get my family killed!" hollers Damian.

   2006, Ashaki Boelter., The Nok, page 55

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   Elizabeth continued into the living room and saw Velvet napping on the cool linoleum under the dining room table. She stopped to stroke her silky side and the puppy's tail went bap, bap, bap against the floor in greeting.

   2014, Rose McMills, Mountain Girl

present singular third person baps · participle present bapping · participle past bapped · past bapped

1. informaltransitiveTo hit lightly.

   She lightly bapped him on the head, then continued […]

   2016, Nathan Birr, Shot List - The Douglas Files: Book Four, →ISBN, page 385

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   “Actually, I like you growling when we're in our bedchamber. It, um . . . makes me think of all the things we do.” “Oh.” He processed that for a moment, then grinned down at her. “I'll take that as permission to growl at you all the more, then!” “Wolfer!” She bapped him again with the back of her fingers.

   2007, Jean Johnson, The Wolf: A Novel of the Sons of Destiny, Penguin, →ISBN

1. uncountableCooked rice as part of Korean cuisine.

plural BAPs

1. USabbreviationacronymderogatorysometimesAcronym of Black American princess, an upper-class black woman with a spoiled or materialistic attitude.

   [Condoleezza Rice is] a BAP—a bona fide Black American Princess—who exhibits all the telltale qualities of the category: a razor-sharp proficiency, cool manner and a good daughter's devotion to carrying out orders.

   2002 November 26, Adrienne Crew, “BAP like me”, in Salon, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2007

2. initialismgovernmentThe ship prefix for a ship from the navy of Peru
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of broader autism phenotype

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Bronze Age Pervert, a far-right Internet personality.

   BAP has produced an ungrammatical and meandering but refreshingly brief “exhortation” (as he terms it) that reveals a widely read mind.

   2023 September 23, John Gray, “Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2023, retrieved 01 May 2025

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   In a speech earlier this year, Peter Thiel said that while he found BAP’s solutions to modern problems “tempting,” he disagreed with his “distortions to the Judeo-Christian tradition.”

   2023 July 16, Rosie Gray, “How Bronze Age Pervert Built an Online Following and Injected Anti-Democracy, Pro-Men Ideas Into the GOP”, in Politico, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023

   It is hard to convey precisely what BAP believes, in part because his views are so outlandish that even when stated simply, they sound like incoherent ranting.

   2023 August 3, Graeme Wood, “How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023