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wap en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK) A blow, hitbeating; a whap.
  2. (colloquial) A breast.
  3. A bundle.
  4. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A weapon, gun.
  5. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wop (“derogatory: an Italian”)
    alt of wop
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
waps Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

gun · gat · piece · iron · firearm

Source: en.wiktionary, “wap” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

wap en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK) To beat; to whap.
    • I[…]wapped him over his head 2006, George Jachimowicz, The Wizard King:Book One:
    • 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:
  2. (UK, archaic, qualifier:thieves' cant) To 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wapped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wapped Tense=Past lexicographic
waps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

wapping mort (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wappered (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wapping dell (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wapping cove (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wappened (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · mort wap-apace (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wapping moll (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)) · wapping ken (Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse))

Synonyms

copulate (sexual intercourse) · attack (beat)