whap

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see also: WHAP

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Noun

whap (plural whaps)

1. A blow; a hit; a variation of whop.
2. (Scotland) the curlew.

Verb

whap (whaps, present participle whapping; past and past participle 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, as if he though he had a right to look big […]

   • 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, p. 379,

     TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)

   • 1902, Henry Van Dyke, “The Mill” in The Blue Flower, New York: Scribner, p. 65,

     And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream.

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 9, p. 524,

     Screen doors whapped throughout the night […]

   She whapped down on the floor.
   The fish whapped over.

Interjection

1. A sudden blow; a variation of whop.

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WHAP

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Proper noun

1. (US, education) Initialism of AP World History

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