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/zæp/ · noun
(colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy..
You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.
Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.
When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.
The guest immediately asked the bartender to give his drink a zap in the microwave oven behind him […]
They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.
Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]
I think they zapped the processor.
If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more.
Use zap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zap means (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy..
Common synonyms include channel surf, channel hop, nuke, microwave.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.
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