• IPA: /pæp/

pap (plural paps)

1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

   Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.

2. (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
3. (South Africa) Porridge.

   Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

4. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.

   Treasury pap

5. The pulp of fruit.

• German: Brei
• Italian: pappa
• Russian: пюре́
• Spanish: papilla

pap

1. (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.

   He is so pap and boring.

pap (paps, present participle papping; past and past participle papped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.

pap (plural paps)

1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto XII:

     But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd {{...}

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book tetins, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps {{transterm

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 11:27 ↗:

     And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.

3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.

pap (plural paps)

1. Pap smear

pap

1. (South African slang) Flat.

   I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) A paparazzo.
   • 2015, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20151214054650/http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/justin-bieber-top-10-worst-moments Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments]", OK! Magazine:

     As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.

pap (paps, present participle papping; past and past participle papped)

1. (informal, usually, in the passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

   Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) pa; father

1. (Singapore) Initialism of People's Action Party}.
2. (Singapore, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
3. (PRC) Initialism of People's Armed Police}.

pap (plural paps)

1. (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
3. (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
4. (philosophy) principle of alternate possibilities
5. participatory anthropic principle
6. (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure PAP ventilation
   1. (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device