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Whap

intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Advanced Placement World History. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    A blow; a hit; a whop.
  2. 2
    The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup. Scotland, obsolete
  3. 3
    A breast. UK, colloquial
Verb
  1. 1
    To strike hard and suddenly. US, transitive
  2. 2
    hit hard wordnet
  3. 3
    To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly. US, intransitive

    "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 […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Etymology 4

Variant of whaup.

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