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whap¹

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

noun whaps

  1. A blow; a hit; a whop.
  2. UK, colloquial A breast.

verb whaps · whapping · whapped

  1. US, transitive To strike hard and suddenly.
  2. US, intransitive To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly. 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,

interjection

  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.

whap²

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Variant of whaup.

noun whaps

  1. Scotland, obsolete The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

WHAP³

proper noun

  1. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Advanced Placement World History

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@misc{whap_2026,
  title = {whap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}