Whap

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A blow; a hit; a whop..

Definitions by Sense

1. A blow; a hit; a whop.
2. (UK, colloquial) A breast.
3. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.
4. (US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
5. The sound of sudden blow or hit.
6. (Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

Screen doors whapped throughout the night […]

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.

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