wap

plural waps

1. UKA blow, hitbeating; a whap.
2. colloquialA breast.
3. A bundle.
4. Multicultural London EnglishslangA weapon, gun.

   Synonyms: firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece

5. alternativeAlternative form of wop (“derogatory: an Italian”)

   The waps will never stand for that. You'd be fucking with sacrilege. Every Italiano dreams of owning a red Ferrari.

   2013 September 9, Sean Walsh, MOB v MAFIA: Gangster Tales From New York & Rome, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 28

present singular third person waps · participle present wapping · participle past wapped · past wapped

1. UKTo beat; to whap.

   I[…]wapped him over his head

   2006, George Jachimowicz, The Wizard King:Book One

   1 more example

   Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “How king Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge”, in Le Morte d'Arthur, London: MacMillan & Co, published 1919, book 21, chapter 5, page 480

   Synonyms: attack

2. UKarchaicthieves' cantTo engage in sexual intercourse.

   No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.

   1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit

   2 more examples

   Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

   1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129

   Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

   1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1

   Synonyms: copulate

3. obsoletetransitiveTo wrap or bind.

1. communicationsWireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.

plural WAPs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecommunicationsInitialism of wireless access point.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of whey acidic protein.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismslanguncountablevulgarInitialism of wet-ass pussy.

   “You're worried about this dude? Seriously? The boy is whipped on that WAP. Whipped, I tell you.”

   2021, Cassia Leo, Savage Love, unnumbered page

   2 more examples

   "I gotcha, Doc. I won't bother her for another week or so, but after that, I'm all in that WAP!" Jamal said, pumping the air like he was having sex.

   2021, Alicia Reynolds, Grown Little Girl 2: Taking Over the Reigns, unnumbered page

   After some light finger work and his admiration of my WAP, it became clear we needed a more secure spot.

   2021, “Moaningful Confessions: The Wrong Kind of Bang”, in Critic, number 8, Otago University, page 45