whap

plural whaps

1. A blow; a hit; a whop.
2. UKcolloquialA breast.

present singular third person whaps · participle present whapping · participle past whapped · past whapped

1. UStransitiveTo strike hard and suddenly.
2. USintransitiveTo throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.

   The fish whapped over.

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   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 […]

   TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)

   1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, page 379

   And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream.

   1902, Henry Van Dyke, “The Mill”, in The Blue Flower, New York: Scribner, page 65

   Screen doors whapped throughout the night […]

   1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 524

   She whapped down on the floor.

1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.

   Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.

   1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Capital Territory, page 10, column 2

plural whaps

1. ScotlandobsoleteThe curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

1. USabbreviationinitialismeducationInitialism of Advanced Placement World History.